border wall

Biden continues a tradition of building fences at the US-Mexico border that long precedes Donald Trump.

A border policy divorced from history can’t do what policymakers want.

The borderlands have “been transformed into a vast graveyard of the missing.”

A timeline of border fortification, from 1945 to the Trump Era.

President Trump's trip to the border Thursday to demand a $5.7 billion wall marks another chapter in the boundary's tortured history.

History tells us that Trump's proposed wall will not work, and that it will do more damage than good.

The US-Mexico border wall is disrupting and destroying the lives of a united binational community.

In the 1950s the construction of a dam on the Texas–Mexico border displaced communities from their land—and anticipated the wall-building underway today.

The first barbed wire border fences were proposed to keep out Chinese migrants. They’ve been debated for over a century.

Border wall construction is encroaching on a site where people from many cultures have interacted for thousands of years.

At first glance, frontier towns near the U.S.-Mexico border seem oblivious both of history and of the current political reality.

The United States must devise a program that addresses the root causes of migration.

What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.

Truman seized control of the country’s steel mills during the Korean War. It led to a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court.

As long as Americans continue to flood into Mexico, the wall will do little to deter crossings.

The precedents for Trump’s hyped-up immigration crackdown.

Three books explore a history of fractious extremism that predates Donald Trump.

In the 19th century, Americans dumped poor migrants overseas. Now some governors are shipping them off to other states.

Exploring the history of U.S. empire through the story of Fort Huachuca – the “Guardian of the Frontier.”

When President Nixon launched the war on drugs in 1971, it set off a bloody chain reaction in Mexico as new documents reveal.