US-Mexico Border 🇺🇸🇲🇽 History you should know

The border between the United States and Mexico is an incredibly contentious subject. It is an unending controversy. But learning some history may alleviate that issue, at least a modicum. Our two countries are connected, but separate. There has never been an all-encompassing nor correct perspective on the matter. For most of its existence, tension and cohesion has defined relations, governance, and culture along this imaginary boundary. It bled in both directions, not only through violence, but through interconnection. The history of the US-Mexico border is a long and winding one, much like the border itself. The line that separates America from Mexico has seen filibusters, wars, unity, freedom, restriction, militarization, smuggling, stealing, sneaking, barrier building, cultural solidarity, cooperation, deportation, and refuge. It’s up to the politicians of both sides to decide which of those things they want to emphasize in the future. The border remains a contentious issue, but in order to prop