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Articles on US-Mexico border wall
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Drowning, blunt force trauma and exposure to extreme weather are among the risks that migrants face making the dangerous journey across the US-Mexico border.
Donald Trump says immigrants are ‘attacking’ US cities and the country needs a closed border. The rhetoric sounded very much the same in the early 1900s.
Biden’s executive order won’t apply to undocumented minors who enter the US alone. And the order will require the help of Mexico and other countries.
Setting up buoys in a section of the Rio Grande is more likely to result in migrants seeking pathways elsewhere, rather than deterring migration altogether.
Keeping landscapes connected can help protect wild animals and plants. In the US Southwest, border wall construction is closing off corridors that jaguars and other at-risk species use.
Nearly 700 species of flightless mammal could be barred entry to cooler habitats due to national borders by 2070.
Millions of miles of fences crisscross the Earth’s surface. They divide ecosystems and affect wild species in ways that often are harmful, but are virtually unstudied.
A nonprofit law expert explains the federal case against the former Trump adviser.
Declaring an issue is a national emergency lets presidents act quickly and with few constraints. But once they get this kind of power, it’s hard to take it back – and it can produce bad policies.
Border wall construction through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona is encroaching on a site where people from many cultures have interacted for thousands of years.
The conviction of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who evaded justice in Mexico, is a win for US officials. But it’s a pyrrhic victory in the war on drugs.
A scholar who travels regularly to the US-Mexico border finds ecological links and a community on the other side that welcomes American visitors.
How man-made barriers can harm humanity for centuries.
The U.S-Mexico border runs through Native American territories. A wall would further divide these communities, separating children from schools, farmers from water and families from each other.
Trump is not the first US president to talk about border security, but he is the only one to make it an “urgent national crisis”. Here is a handy deconstruction of President Trump’s rhetorical strategy.
After 1.3 million migrants from the Middle East and Africa came to Europe in 2015, many countries built fences or closed their ports. That has pushed migrants to take riskier routes into the EU.
With its tales of bloody violence, corruption, international trade and entrepreneurial innovation, Guzmán’s trial offers a telenovela-style explainer on Mexican cartels and their American clients.
Because many Americans live paycheck to paycheck, the loss of even one can be a big financial blow for a family.
We asked experts on ethics, constitutional law and European political history to analyze Trump’s Oval Office address. Here’s what they heard in his speech about ‘crisis’ at the US-Mexico border.
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bowdoin College
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Associate Professor of International Relations, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Arkansas
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Reader in the Anthropology of Africa and Law, SOAS, University of London
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Assistant Professor in Psychology, The University of Southern Mississippi
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Visiting Professor of International Affairs, Hamilton College
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor in Hispanic Studies, University of Liverpool
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and U.S.-Mexican Relations, Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of Law, Elon University
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Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
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Professor, History and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles