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Tragic History on the Border: A Boy, a Gun and the U.S. Marines

Margarito Hernandez, the brother of Esequiel Hernandez Jr., who was shot and killed in 1997 by a Marine corporal on an antidrug surveillance team assisting the Border Patrol, in Redford, Texas, Nov. 14, 2018. Hernandez's death has become a cautionary tale as troops once again deploy to the border. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)