Synopsis
President Trump's administration has promised that prototypes for a wall to be built all along the US-Mexico border will be delivered by the end of summer. But will a wall stop people smuggling and drug trafficking?
- Programme: Life in the Shadow of the Wall
- Episode: 1
- Channel: BBC News
- Broadcast year: 2017
- Geography
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