Introduction

The United States-Mexico border stretches over 1,900 miles from the Pacific Ocean in California to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas.

With recent calls for a border wall, trends relating to migrants coming to the border, and new policies affecting these migrants, the question of how to address issues along the United States-Mexico border has been a significant topic of debate around the country.

This deliberation examines the differences in how people interpret the issues at the border and has students deliberate possible solutions to these issues.

Objectives and Outcomes

• Students will identify the key issues occurring at the United States-Mexico border and how different people interpret those issues.
  
  
• Students will develop a proposal to address these issues and support their proposal with arguments from the video clips.