On Dec. 12, the driver of a car carrying migrants from Ukraine and Tajikistan disobeyed an officer's requests to provide id and smacked the officer's hand with a car door mirror as he accelerated past him. This is merely one case out of more than 8,600 Russians who have crossed the Mexico border illegally into the US just in the recent months.
It was one of the most horrifying experiences of Maksim Derzhko's life. Historically a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he travelled wi...