Trumpa s border wall ignores a long history of U.S. cooperation with Mexico. Thata s a problem.

Marchers in Mexico City protest Donald Trump’s anti-Mexican rhetoric and his vows to make Mexico pay for his “big, beautiful” border wall on Feb. 12. In late January, Trump’s executive order on border security called for the construction of the wall, along with increased border patrol activities to control immigration. The order requests a full review of all “direct or indirect Federal aid or assistance” to Mexico over the past five years – and Trump claimed in a Jan. 25 ABC interview that “we will be in a form reimbursed by Mexico.”