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Staff Writer at The Atlantic. Before: Washington Post foreign correspondent in Barcelona, Mexico City, Nairobi and Kabul. Florida man.
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A Reverse Ellis Island

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By Kevin Sieff Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
Julio Borrell knew he was being deported, but after 47 hours on a bus rattling through Mexico, he still had no idea where the United States was sending him. Through the window, he saw the cities give way to sprawling banana plantations and coffee farms. The passengers were still wearing whatever clothes they’d had on when they were detained by ICE: shirts splattered with paint from their most recent job, pajama pants, landscaping-company uniforms, bathing suits.
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What I Saw In Sinaloa

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By Kevin Sieff Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
Last Tuesday night, I was eating sushi with a Mexican police chief in downtown Culiacán, a city that had momentarily flickered back to life amid a bloody cartel turf war. At the table next to us was a birthday party. The police chief ordered a salmon roll. Through the window, I could see groups of families and friends walking on the sidewalk, past car dealerships and strip malls, after months of self-imposed lockdown. Among them were three influencers who pulled up to a KFC down the street.
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The Informants in Mexico’s Government

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By Kevin Sieff Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
The governor of Baja California is a 40-year-old attorney and former big-city mayor named Marina del Pilar. Her state, which includes the megacity of Tijuana, is a magnet for American tourists, and also for narcotics cartels. As a politician of some experience, she is presumably unfazed by the sorts of challenges that come with governing a volatile section of her volatile country.
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