Walls of Shame: Al Jazeera Documentry Looks at the US-Mexican Border Al Jazeera English
go to original September 7, 2016

This film shows what US immigration policy looks like on the ground for the people making the perilous journey for a better life, and for the Americans who call this borderland home.

Update: Since this film first aired on Al Jazeera English in 2007, the US continued to increase spending on border security. At no other time in history has there been as many border patrol officers on duty as there are today.

And now the authorities are bracing for a new challenge: children. Since 2014, the number of families and unaccompanied children apprehended at the border keeps skyrocketing.

Young people are filling family detention centers near the border, having fled poverty or extreme violence in Central America.

And today the issue is taking center stage in this US presidential election, with Donald Trump calling for more walls, leading some migrants to say they will cross the border now before it may be too late.

Related: Eduardo Porter: The Crumbling Case for a Mexican Border Wall (The New York Times)

Related: Former People Smuggler Says Trump’s Mexican Wall Is a Waste of Time (Metro.co.uk)

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