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Unpacking America’s complex trade with Mexico

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jan 27, 2017
The U.S.-Mexico trade relationship gets talked about by the president as if we’re being scammed. He implies that because the United States has a trade deficit with its southern neighbor, we’re just pouring money over the border. But most economists say the trade deficit with Mexico is not a problem, and, in fact, that it’s […]
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Both sides of the border weigh in on Trump's security plans

by Kimberly Adams
Jan 25, 2017
Trump will lay out new strategies for immigration and border security between the U.S. and Mexico on Wednesday, according to multiple reports.
Near Naco, Arizona sections of the border fence are being replaced with taller, stronger barriers as part of an initiative that been in the works for several years.
Kimberly Adams/Marketplace
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On the Mexican border, little interest in inauguration

by Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams
Jan 20, 2017
Gas prices are up, the peso is down and President Trump's wall isn't top of mind.
The turnoff road for the United States outside the canteen run by BorderLinks just across the US-Mexico border in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico on October 11, 2016.
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
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Migrant families continue to risk the trek north to US

by Kimberly Adams
Jul 11, 2016
After a drop in 2015, more families and kids are illegally crossing the border.
Since Nemesis Aparicio does not speak English, volunteers at the bus station gave her a sign to ask people along her journey to help her make the right bus transfers.
Kimberly Adams/Marketplace
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Illegal trade thrives along Mexico-Guatemala border

by Lorne Matalon
Jun 30, 2016
People and goods cross freely, despite help from the U.S.
Migrants transiting Mexico once depended largely on a series of trains known collectively as La Bestia (the beast). Following raids on the trains that began in 2014, migrants say they walk long distances in the Mexican interior to avoid mobile and fixed checkpoints.
Lorne Matalon/Marketplace
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My Economy: Educational aspirations in a borderland

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 5, 2016
Many students in the border region are constantly moving between two countries.
Bowie is located in the Chamizal neighborhood in the South Central part of El Paso.
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My Economy: Life between two countries

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios
Feb 4, 2016
A couple's lives are split between countries after a traffic stop and deportation.
A woman crosses the Sante Fe Bridge at Paso Del Norte, one of three ports of entry connecting El Paso and Juarez.
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My Economy: The divided life of business at the border

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 3, 2016
When you live on an international border, the global economy is the local economy.
Roughly 20,000 pedestrians cross the border between El Paso and Juarez each day to work, shop and go to school.
Tommy Andres
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New airport terminal spans two countries

by Kimberly Adams
Dec 9, 2015
The terminal allows passengers to enter a Mexican airport through a US facility.
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China's Frontier Towns

China bets big on border town with Russia, North Korea

by Rob Schmitz
Nov 16, 2015
China invests billions into Hunchun, along the Russian and North Korean border.
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