http://www.businessinsider.com/us-mexico-border-history-photos-2017-4:
One of the Trump administration's latest immigration policies has come under fire, after Homeland Security figures revealed that ICE is separating families at the US-Mexico border.
Between May 5 and June 9, border officials separated more than 2,300 children from 2,206 parents, the DHS said Tuesday. The policy, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in early May, enforces "zero-tolerance" regulations on those who enter the US without documentation. Any migrant who attempts to cross the southern border — even those seeking asylum — is now being prosecuted.
Following mounting pressure from both sides of the aisle, Trump signed an executive order that he said will stop family separation at the border. But the fate of immigrant children already in custody remains unclear, and the order still faces legal obstacles.
The goal of establishing a firm physical boundary to separate the US from Mexico is nothing new. In the country that has the world's largest immigrant population, American presidential administrations have tried tightening security along the border for around a century.
Though the divide was formally established in 1824, the US didn't launch its official Border Patrol until 1924. Inspection and holding stations were created after that, followed by the construction of miles of fences with barbed wire and steel barriers over the next few decades.
The included pictures and captions speak of the changing attitudes towards Mexicans and their efforts to cross the border over the years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @10:55AM (2 children)
You're an idiot.
...but you're really good at repeating Lamestream Media's bullshit.
Here, read what an actual Socialist has to say about Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO):
Hint: Socialist == Anti-Capitalist.
(That's -NOT- AMLO.)
Absolutely nothing has been changed in Mexico except the name on the mailbox at the executive mansion.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @12:44PM
Hint: Ignorance is Strength [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday July 02 2018, @01:12PM
The mailbox at my White House didn't always say President Donald J. Trump. It used to say Marjorie Merriweather Post. At Mar-A-Lago, my Southern White House. And at my Washington White House, it used to Say President Barack Hussein Obama. As everyone knows. But, we're different guys. We do things a little differently. Right? Trust me, it's more than a little.....
I congratulate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on becoming the next President of Mexico. I look very much forward to working with him. There are two very big things we need to talk about, the border and trade.
Mexico paying for the Border Wall, so important. Now it can happen. We're building a beautiful Wall. With a big, beautiful door. Andres will be very happy to pay for that one, believe me. Because it's going to be terrific for the Mexican people. It's going to stop all those folks coming up from Central America. Going through Mexico, causing many problems. And it's going to stop a lot of the drugs. Not entirely. They throw 60-pound sacks of drugs over our border, very hard to stop. But it'll be less, believe me. A lot less. And we're going to have a see-through Wall. So when there's a sack of drugs coming at you, you'll know. You'll see it. And you'll be able to duck. It has to be see-through, very important for the safety. And we're making it see-through.
And we need fair trade, not free trade. We need fair trade. It's got to be fair. People say trade war, trade war. I'm talking about a fair war. NAFTA has been a DISASTER. We will either renegotiate it or we will break it. Every agreement has an end. Every agreement has to be fair. And maybe we'll redo NAFTA without Canada. Without Justin from Canada, who's killing us on trade, the dairy and everything else. And call it MAFTA, the Mexico America Fair Trade Agreement. Mexico is taking our jobs. I love the Mexican people. They're great people. The leadership is too smart for our country. But that's about to change (BYE FELICIA!), they're getting a new President, a guy I can work with. That's tremendous. It's absolutely tremendous. There is much to be done that will benefit both the United States and Mexico!!