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Life in the Shadow of US-Mexico...

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Life in the Shadow of US-Mexico Border Wall

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In 2017, then President Donald Trump's administration promised that prototypes for a wall to be built all along the US-Mexico border would be delivered by the end of summer. But can a wall stop people smuggling and drug trafficking?

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