Troops. Barricades. Guns. On the border, this is the vocabulary of U.S.-Mexico relations. Here at one of the busiest crossing points, dingy metal walls separate the United States from Mexico, rich from poor. The walls are spray-painted with crude images of American border patrol agents, their pistols leveled at brown-skinned men. Even as differences over immigration and border security — roiled this week by congressional debates and massive protests by Latinos across the United States — threaten to dredge a deeper divide between the nations, it is clear that they are increasingly knit by an exchange of business, ideas and, above all, human beings. Full Story
About OODA Analyst
OODA is comprised of a unique team of international experts capable of providing advanced intelligence and analysis, strategy and planning support, risk and threat management, training, decision support, crisis response, and security services to global corporations and governments.