06.3 Profiteers of Isolation: The US-Mexican Border
In 2016, Donald Trump’s call for a monumental wall brought the U.S.-Mexico border back on the international agenda. But the closure of this border has a much longer history – and there is nothing to suggest that it will not continue into the future. Trump has merely been a passenger on this decades-old bandwagon. This border knows many profiteers of isolation on both sides: from contractors employing seasonal low-wage harvesters to human traffickers and drug traffickers to arms manufacturers from many countries all the way to arms dealers. At the same time, many organizations on both sides of the border are reaching out to victims and calling for an end to the bloody arms trade.
Part 3 of GLOBAL NET’s Case 06 – STOP THE ARMS TRADE highlights the complex relationships between people, walls, power and money around the US-Mexican border.
By María-Eugenia Lüttmann Valencia
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USA-Mexico – own graphic using WikimediaCommons