A house in Tijuana overlooks multiple layers of steel walls, fences, and other barricades along the US- Mexico border Business had been booming along in San Diego-Tijuana region so much that the cross-border maquiladora industry had trouble finding enough workers. Plans for expansion were afoot, with additional and enhanced border crossings in the works.

Iran said on Saturday it would stop U.S. citizens entering the country in retaliation to Washington’s visa ban against Tehran and six other majority-Muslim countries announced by new U.S. President Donald Trump . “While respecting the American people and distinguishing between them and the hostile policies of the U.S. government, Iran will implement the principle of reciprocity until the offensive U.S. limitations against Iranian nationals are lifted,” a Foreign Ministry statement said.

President Donald Trump has barred all refugees from entering the United States for four months, and indefinitely halted any from Syria, saying the ban is needed to keep out “radical Islamic terrorists.” The order Friday immediately suspended a program that last year resettled in the U.S. roughly 85,000 people displaced by war, political oppression, hunger and religious prejudice.

President Donald Trump on Friday barred all refugees from entering the United States for four months – and those from war-ravaged Syria indefinitely – declaring the ban necessary to prevent “radical Islamic terrorists” from entering the nation. The order immediately suspended a program that last year resettled to the U.S. roughly 85,000 people displaced by war, political oppression, hunger and religious prejudice.