The U.S.-Mexico Border

About the U.S.-Mexico Border Project

Legal flows of trade, tourists, shoppers and students as well as illegal flows of illicit drugs and undocumented migrants have made the U.S.-Mexico border the epicenter of disagreements between the two countries. Yet the border is crucial to the prosperity and the security of both countries. The Center for the United States and Mexico works closely with the policy community to develop alternatives for better border management between the U.S. and Mexico.

The Future of U.S.-Mexico Relations: Forecast to 2040

This project will critically examine the U.S.-Mexico relationship, applying strategic foresight methods to identify the variables that will likely impact the future health of the binational relationship, project the possible outcomes of the relationship under the current political climate, and examine the broader challenges that the U.S. and Mexico will face in the coming decades.

Binational Institutional Development on the U.S.-Mexico Border

This project will study institutions and cross-border governance on the U.S.-Mexico border with a focus on the adequacy of the current border governing institutions. The study, with academic institutions on both sides of the border, will look at the function, structure, actors and processes of cross-border governance.

Publications

• Managing Water on the U.S.-Mexico Border
• Time to Reopen the U.S.-Mexico Border
• Why the U.S.-Mexico Border Should be Reopened
• Fronteras de norteamérica en tiempos de pandemia (North American Borders in Pandemic Times)
• Is there a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border?
• Redefining and Governing the Border as a Binational Commons
• Beyond the Rio Grande Water Debt
• Mexican Consumption and the Economic Impact of the Coronavirus on Texas Border Counties
• Binational Commons: Institutional Development and Governance on the U.S.-Mexico Border
• Governance at the U.S.-Mexico Border
• El Paso Mass Shooting: Symbol of Myriad Issues
• The 1994 U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty
• NADB CAIP: History and Lessons Learned
• Solve the Real Border Problems
• Biological Effects of Border Barriers
• Texas Benefits Most in a Collaborative U.S.-Mexico Relationship
• Challenges facing the U.S-Mexico border wall expansion
• The Rhetoric of Border Walls: From Israel to the United States
• Managing the U.S.-Mexico Border First Requires Defining It
• Customs and Border Protection Abuses at Ports of Entry along the U.S.-Mexico Border
• The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars
• Cross-border community organizing on the U.S.-Mexico border
• Mexico’s Not-So-Comprehensive Southern Border Plan
• How a Forgotten Border Dispute Tormented U.S.-Mexico Relations for 100 Years
• Violence as an Epidemic: Examining Organized Crime-Related Homicides in the U.S.-Mexico Border from a Public Health Perspective
• Ciudad Juárez: A Perfect Storm on the U.S.-Mexico Border
• Border Crisis Solutions
• Theory-Building in Border Studies: The View From North America

Podcast Episodes

• Data for U.S.-Mexico Border Studies: Challenges in Data Collection and Distribution
• El Tercer País
• U.S.-Mexico Relations Under President-Elect Biden
• Health Inequalities in the US-Mexico Border Region
• The U.S.-Mexico Border: Destinies Intertwined
• The Impact of a Border Wall on Biodiversity
• The U.S.-Mexico Border

Infographics

• What are the costs of border security and immigration enforcement?
• Is a border barrier justified?

Events

• Moving the U.S.-Mexico Relationship Forward: A Conversation with the Honorable Roberto Velasco
• The North American Development Bank and the Next Quarter Century
• The U.S.-Mexico Border: Destinies Intertwined
• Uncertain Partners: U.S.-Mexico Relations Under the Trump Administration
• Integrating North America: Building a Modern, Efficient and Flexible Border
• Responding to Shared Problems: Public Health in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region