Michael Dear

University of California, Berkeley

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Michael Dear is Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at the University of California Berkeley and author of Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide.

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President Trump vowed throughout his campaign to build a "beautiful" wall along the 2,000-plus-mile US-Mexican border -- and to make Mexico pay for it. Mexico is saying no way.

Trump's border wall

President Trump vowed throughout his campaign to build a "beautiful" wall along the 2,000-plus-mile US-Mexican border -- and to make Mexico pay for it. Mexico is saying no way.

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