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Alfonso Mercado, psychologist and expert in immigration trauma: ‘The only crisis at the border is that of mental health’
Alfonso Mercado’s work has turned his hair gray. And his beard. In fact, at 46, his hair is completely white, and he blames his work as a psychologist on the U.S.-Mexico border. Mercado — who is also a professor of clinical psychology at the University of …