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Terrorized by Violence: Mexico's Refugees

NPR
Published October 9, 2015 at 4:28 PM EDT

In the US, there's a widespread notion that Mexicans fleeing cartel violence go north. In reality, most of these people move somewhere else in Mexico, becoming internal refugees in their own country.

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