Up Against the Wall: U.S.-Mexico Relations from NAFTA to Trump

How did US-Mexico relations reach their current crisis? In this talk organized by San Miguel PEN, Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas Program at the Center for International Policy in Mexico City, discusses “how we got here—facing an uncertain renegotiation of NAFTA, possible mass deportation of Mexicans in the United States, construction of the wall, and a rise in hate crdimes—an what people on both sides of the border are doing to reject racism and xenophobia and build new, people-to-people ties between our two nations.”