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Topic: us-mexico border

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This Feb. 22, 2014 file photo shows Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, being escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo)

Kingpin El Chapo is jailed for life

Luis Gómez Romero - The Conversation
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TSA to send officials to southern border

Matthew Rozsa
Ryan Zinke (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Zinke's drug bust nabbed a lot of pot

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Donald Trump; Richard Nixon (AP/Getty/Salon)

U.S.-Mexico border closure in the past

Aileen Teague - The Conversation
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Trump gives "one-year warning" to Mexico

Matthew Rozsa
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Trump gets the blame for shutdown: poll

Shira Tarlo
Immigrant rights activist Elvira Arellano leads the way through the metal turnstyle into the United States where she planned to ask for asylum in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Arellano and another 20 Mexican and Central American migrants crossed into the United States from the border city of Tijuana as part of a protest to demand an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws and an end to deportations. () (AP Photo/Alex Cossio)

Supreme Court split on rights

Mark Sherman
People pass graffiti along the border structure in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation's immigration controls Wednesday, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall and cut federal grants for immigrant-protecting "sanctuary cities." () (AP Photo/Julie Watson)

Mexico as a vital partner

Earl Anthony Wayne - The Conversation
FILE - This 1924 file photo shows the registry room at Ellis Island in New York harbor, a gateway to America for millions of immigrants. The American self-image is forever intertwined with the melting pot _ a nation that embraces the world’s wretched refuse, a nation built by immigrants. But America’s immigration history is complicated. () (AP Photo/File)

History of challenging bans

Kevin Johnson - The Conversation
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A 20 percent import tariff

Julie Pace