[The Patriot]

Pancho Villa, prostitutes and spies: The US-Mexico border wall's wild origins

01-10-2019 08:09 AM

For decades, the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico had been little more than an imaginary line in the sand, marked only by the occasional pillar in the Sonoran desert. But rampant smuggling, the Mexican Revolution and the outbreak of World War I had split a border town in two, sowing fear and stoking tensions.


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