A smugglers' tunnel that had been shut down but left unfilled on the Mexican side was found to be back in operation in December
The escalating violence in Central America has led to a surge in the number of asylum claims who are increasingly looking to Mexico for refuge.
Mexican Senator Laura Rojas is demanding President Peña Nieto to take a stance and say that Mexico will not be paying for Donald Trump's promised wall.
As inauguration nears, the wall is sounding increasingly like it could end up a fence, and his team and Congressional Republicans are hatching a plan in which taxpayers would foot the bill.
The officials discussed the importance of the U.S-Mexico relation; In 2015, trade between Mexico and the United States surpassed 531 billion dollars.
There are parts like the Big Bend region — we don't want see a wall in the beautiful Big Bend National Park: Texas Governor Greg Abbott
15-year-old Sergio Hernández was fatally shot in 2010 by a border patrol agent; a court ruled that the boy's family couldn't sue because he was in Mexico at the time of the shooting and wasn't constitutionally protected.
A Texas state trooper has been wounded on the Texas-Mexico border by a bullet traced to a gunbattle underway on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande
Magal Security Systems believe that if the Mexico barrier is built, it will be similar to Israeli structures that include a combination of fences and walls equipped with cutting edge technology
Smugglers are believed to smuggle people from the Dominican Republic and other countries through Guatemala and Mexico and across the Texas border before being moved to New York and other U.S. cities.