AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s skewed picture of Mexico border perils

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump describes drugs flowing across the hinterlands from Mexico, a federal prison population laden with criminals who are in the U.S. illegally and a Texas city transformed by a border barrier into a safe place to live. It’s a misleading and in some ways false picture, and one that underpins his extraordinary declaration of a national emergency at the southern border.
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