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Now, after campaigning on promises to secure the border and deport undocumented immigrants, President-elect Trump is poised to take office Monday amid a steep drop in border crossings.

The school district declined to confirm that figure, but has acknowledged a steep rise in fights, weapons seizures and the use of illegal or controlled substances.

It’s a strange world steeped in sci-fi and pseudo-religion, but the show raises existential questions about our relationship to work and corporations.

Now, a generation later, the results are in—- shuttered factories, withered towns and cities, and a working-class so steeped in despair that suicide seems preferable to living.

Landslides following torrential rains are not uncommon in the rainy season, with neighbourhoods precariously built on steep hillsides the worst hit.