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Students and professors travel to Texas during the winter break to assist detained families

At the Border, Cornell Law Students and Professor Help Detained Mothers and Children Seek Asylum

By Winny Sun | January 22, 2019

A law professor and six Cornell Law students spent their winter break at the largest immigrant detention center in the country, helping recently arrived asylum seekers prepare for the vetting process.

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President Trump's proposed wall along the US-Mexico border marks the end of the American frontier, argued Prof. Greg Grandin, history, New York University.

From Frontier to Border Wall: Historian Examines American Exceptionalism Under Trump

By Kyla Chasalow | March 23, 2017

American exceptionalism’s greatest metaphor — the American frontier — is dead, and in its place is Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, said Prof. Greg Grandin, history, New York University, in a lecture on Wednesday.