Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is greeted by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Can Canada manage to keep up trade while also meeting US expectations for a safe border?
Jesus Blasco De Avellaneda/Reuters
What do border walls cost? And do they work?
Corey Taratuta
We should be building wildlife bridges on the US-Mexico border – not walls.
A protestor burns a figure representing Trump outside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
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Since World War II, the US and Mexico have successfully worked together on issues like trade and migration. If Trump refuses to treat Mexico as a partner, how bitter will the breakup be?
A wall to nowhere?
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President Trump signed an executive order to get construction started and ask Congress to pay up front, but good luck getting Mexico to foot the bill.
The wide gap between the two leaders was in full display back in August, when candidate Trump visited Mexico.
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A former ambassador to Mexico explains how Trump’s rhetoric is sparking a backlash that could endanger U.S. economic and national security.
Protests after death of a 36-year-old woman in custody at immigration detention facility in Arizona.
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A short history of legal challenges to immigrant detention practices in the U.S. may shed light on what’s to come for the new administration.
One unpopular president goes up in the world at the expense of another.
EPA/Jorge Nunez
It takes a lot to make a president with a 12% approval rating a hero. Trump may yet manage it.
Sgt. 1st Class Gordon Hyde, http://www.ngb.army.mil
Filmmakers sympathetic to the plight of Mexican and Central American migrants are using their films to counter the fug of misinformation.
Demonstrators gather at Washington Square Park to protest against President Trump in New York.
Reuters/Shannon Stapleton
It is not just Trump and the US throwing up barriers to Africans. The European Union is moving fast to halt the arrival of refugees and migrants on its southern shores
U.S. Border Patrol frisks a man near the U.S.-Mexico border in California.
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January 31, 2017
Susan Bibler Coutin , University of California, Irvine ; Jennifer Chacón , University of California, Irvine ; Sameer Ashar , University of California, Irvine , and Stephen Lee , University of California, Irvine
A team of legal scholars breaks down the factors that will determine which immigrants are most vulnerable for deportation under the new administration.
Presidential candidate Trump holds a sign at a rally.
REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
The logic behind building a wall is centuries old. But can concrete solve the complex problems the U.S. is facing today?
Donald Trump raises his fist after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States
Carlos Barria/Reuters
The world is on edge as Donald Trump enters the White House.
Mexico often detains Central Americans before they reach the US border, including children, like Kendri Hernandez, 3 (L) and Andri Yovani, 2.
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Beyond the challenges posed by President-elect Trump, Mexico has its own issues with border security, 3,000 kilometres to the south.
Lettuce farmers from Oaxaca working in Mexico City.
AP Photo/Nick Wagner
US elections surfaced fears of Mexicans crossing into the US. But their numbers are actually in decline. Why are they choosing to stay in Mexico? Two migration experts went there to find out.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
Trump’s promises to build a wall have caused anxiety in Mexico – but the country has its own conflicting policies on migration from Central America.
A line of people outside the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles.
AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes
How can we possibly know how many millions of people are living in the U.S. illegally? Demographers have actually refined a simple formula that’s worked pretty well since the 1970s.
A protester jumps over a wall erected at Washington State University.
AP
Spending more on border control hasn’t stopped migrants from crossing the border. Neither will a wall. Here’s why.
Donald Trump met with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
REUTERS/Henry Romero
Donald Trump gave a major speech on immigration this week. This roundup looks at some of his ideas for reform and explains what the experts have to say about this complex issue.
EPA/Larry W. Smith
Donald Trump’s call for a barrier on the Mexican border rides a two-decade-long wave of vigilantism and grassroots activism.