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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 15

Dr. Melody Glenn on the false narrative about Fentanyl, and a bipartisan congress built the largest immigrant detention system in the world. Advocate Jesse Franzblau talks about how we dismantle it.
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How ICE Detention Was Built

How ICE Detention Was Built

Jesse Franzblau is the Associate Policy Director at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a Chicago-based nonprofit that provides legal services to immigrants and advocates for their rights.

The Borderlands Are Not Flooded with Fentanyl: A Q&A with Dr. Melody Glenn, author of Mother of Methadone

The Borderlands Are Not Flooded with Fentanyl: A Q&A with Dr. Melody Glenn, author of Mother of Methadone

Dr. Melody Glenn is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Arizona. She’s also the author of Mother of Methadone, available now from Beacon Press. In the book, Dr. Glenn tells the story of Dr. Marie Nyswander, who developed methadone maintenance as a therapy for heroin use in the 1960s, w…

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