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1 day ago · In the U.S.–Mexico context, the concepts of the border, borderlands, and la frontera represent their ongoing complex geopolitical, cultural, and historical relations. With the signing of the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty in 1848 and the Gadsden Purchase in 1853, the Mexican and U.S. governments established the southern border of the United States.
3 days ago · The Mexico–United States border (Spanish: frontera Estados Unidos–México) is an international border separating Mexico and the United States, extending from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Gulf of Mexico in the east. It traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from urban areas to deserts.
2 days ago · Border police on the US-Mexican border. Credit: Getty. July 6, 2024 - 5:00pm. President Joe Biden imposed asylum restrictions one month ago to “gain control of the border” ahead of the November elections. Migrant encounters subsequently crashed by 40%, with the White House boasting this week that they’d hit a record low.
4 days ago · The Mexican American Museum of Texas' latest exhibition, "Life and Death on The Border 1910-1920," debuted on May 5, 2024, at the gallery situated at The University of Dallas. The showcase will ...
5 days ago · Meanwhile, shelters on the Mexican side of the border are reaching capacity, Shepard said. By the end of June, three weeks after the executive order took effect, the seven-day average of migrant ...
4 days ago · Three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would take the extraordinary step of building a state-funded wall along the Mexico border, he has 34 miles of steel bollards to show for it. That infrastructure — which has so far run up a price tag of some $25 million per mile — isn’t yet a contiguous wall.
3 days ago · Mexico - Spanish Conquest, Aztec Empire, Colonialism: After taking possession of the Aztec empire, the Spaniards quickly subjugated most of the other indigenous tribes in southern Mexico, and by 1525 Spanish rule had been extended as far south as Guatemala and Honduras.
