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Pa rt thats it from me. Now its time for part two of our series life in the shadow of the wall. One of president Trumps Campaign pledges was the construction of a wall along the Us Mexico Border but how would a wall stop drugs and people illegally entering the United States . Crowd build that wall build that wall yeah, ok, ok. Well build the wall. We need to build a wall. A big, beautiful wall. Build a wall. It was one of his Main Campaign pledges to build a wall all along the Us Mexico Border. A third of it already has some sort of barrier, but what are the challenges of trying to seal it off completely . I have completed the first part of this trip and so far i have travelled along a border where the river is the natural barrier. But from now on i am going to be visiting places where fences have been in place for years. So we are going to be seeing much more of this. After el paso, Ciudad Juarez and nogales i will finish in the quintessential border town of tijuana a place where some are struggling to start new lives. Back home you just cant go anywhere here, you start selling drugs just to get by or make money or hustle or whatever. But i am starting my trip in a place where it is not always to spot the divide the twin towns of el paso and Ciudad Juarez. Every morning luiz drives from the mexican side of the border into the us. For many here it is a way of life. We cannot show his face because his American Company doesnt allow him to speak. I leave at 2. 30am in the morning, it takes an hour to cross the border. I dont like to be waiting in the line. This is the kind ofjourney that many people make every day to go and work in el paso. Myjob is construction. I work for a company that does concrete and right now they sent somebody to drive a bus, he is doing a job, you know. For myjob isjust to make the wall this time. What have your relatives or friends told you about building this fence . Theyjoke with me, they tell me to leave a little open for them to cross. This is the construction site where is currently working. This is the construction site where he is currently working. The first barriers went up in 1994 at the western end of the border. Successive governments led by clinton, bush and obama extended them all along the frontier. The fence here was erected ten years ago and luiz is repairing a two kilometre stretch of it. He believes the american president is fooling himself if he thinks the frontier can be completely sealed off. Standing so close to it, its obviously a very imposing structure. There used to be a smaller fence here but its now been replaced with this five metre high metal posts and the closer you get to the fence, the more you wonder how the wall President Trump wants to build will serve its purposes and how will it affect the lives and businesses of people in border towns . Since the fence was built, Ciudad Juarez became one of the most violent places in the world. In contrast, el paso is now among the safest cities in the us. They would just cross right here. This is mannys rodriguez, the barrier runs through her backyard. Days ago she saw migrants jumping it with a ladder. We were fixing our truck back here and we heard the voices and we looked outside but we couldnt see no one and we said, where are the voices coming from . When we saw they had a ladder, they built a big, like that Swimming Pool ladder and theyjust, you know, hooked it up to the fence and they crossed over, then the other one pulled it to the other side. They crossed down. Then they just jumped. I said oh, theyjust, you know, they said bye on the whole, though, she says things have improved. We have less people crossing. We have less cargo as we say crossing over. Now, you know, we feel safe. A granddaughter of mexicans, rodriguez supports President Trumps plans. As security, yes. As security, yes, i do. I believe that he is trying to protect the us. The way i see it, i would go tojuarez but i wont trust my daughter to go. Right, so thats how i feel. And i am not saying that i am against mexicans orjuarez or anything, i just wouldnt trust my daughter to go by herself. All along the border there are reminders, like this jacket, that for some the impulse to cross this fence or a future wall may be too strong to stop. I am leaving el paso and driving 500 kilometres west to the twin towns of nogales. The first fence went up here in the 90s, splitting the town in half. The cartels who control the drug trade and the people smuggling responded by going underground and they have turned this area into the tunnel capital of the border. We dont know who we might run into so we dont know who we might run into so the police go ahead of us. We dont know what to expect. Caution is needed. What just dont know what to expect. Caution is needed. Whatjust happened . Smugglers and migrants use the cover of darkness and wait for the right moment to head towards the us end of the tunnel. So the policeman just told me that after the turn on the flashlight they saw someone and this person ran away. Minutes later, we catch a glimpse of him in the distance. He is not moving. And theyre pointing at this person with a flashlight. He believes its better to back up and alert the police so we are heading towards the entrance of the tunnel. The traffickers use not only the subter trainian infrastructure, the authorities have found more than 110 tunnels built by mexican cartels. They call them narco tunnels. In this cemetery one of them hides in plain sight. This is the entrance of a tunnel which was recently filled in. They used to carry drugs to the other side of the border and as you can see, the fence is just about 100 metres from here. On the american side, tony has been a sheriff for 25 yea rs. Side, tony has been a sheriff for 25 years. Theyre very creative, if you do anything theyll go under it. Theyll go over it and theyll go around it. So its a phenomenon thats not going to stop, no wall, no matter how beautiful and big and expensive is going to stop people that are desperate, people that are needy, and people that are poor. Undocumented immigrants in the us have increased by nearly 40 since President Trumps crackdown. But he believes this is missing the point. Illegal immigration as far as i am concerned peals compared to a drug problem. When you are spending resources on illegal immigration and you are talking about identifying people leaving the community that have families and are contributing, its useless. Its not putting resources to the best. Go after them, lets get the criminal agents but dont bother anybody else. Them, lets get the criminal agents but dont bother anybody else. This shelter in nogales opened decades ago. Since then it has received hundreds of thousands of migrants. We find hope and faith but also sadness and pain. For the last 13 yea rs sadness and pain. For the last 13 years this man has worked in tomato fields. She was picked up trying to get back into the us after visiting family in mexico. Despite the riskyjourney shes already planning to go back. If anyone is able to judge the success if anyone is able to judge the success of a wall, it is perhaps the people smugglers. This one says it has reduced numbers. He was happy to appear on camera but preferred not to be named. For him a bigger wall could mean fewer clients but more money. Nogales may be another example of the mixed and complex nature of border towns. And of the unintended consequences of building barriers. A wall will stop some people, but others will find a different way around. My final destination on this road trip is tijuana. No other place on the us mexico frontier has a more intimate relationship with the wall than this city. Here the Us Government started building the borders first barrier almost three decades ago. It has shaped the lives, identities and faiths of millions. This is a graffiti artist who has lived here for 25 years. The wall for him became a canvas, an opportunity to express his feelings towards life in a place divided. Painting on this is a cathartic experience but he wishes it wasnt there at all. The most frequently crossed border in the world unites two countries and there is no indifference to the divisions that engenders. The barriers became a symbol and not a solution to complex problems. Lam iaman i am an american. This is another whose art is defined by the wall. He is a hip hop artist living in the us but has family on both sides of the border. As artists we have to reflect our reality. Having to cross the border so many times growing up, it definitely resonated with my understanding of restrictions and placing borders on people. So in the same i took that to my music, i attached that to my music. Its like if i dont agree there is a border that needs to be crossed in orderfor there is a border that needs to be crossed in order for people to live ina crossed in order for people to live in a particular place, i made the effort not to put borders and restrictions on my music. There are an estimated 11 million million undocumented immigrants living in the us. He has relatives among them and trumps rhetoric against these people has left them dreading the prospect of his family breaking up. I had prospect of his family breaking up. Ihada prospect of his family breaking up. I had a Family Member that had to go toa i had a Family Member that had to go to a government building, from the moment we got the scheduled date to the actual date, there is a lot of tension, there is a lot of arguments at home. Because why, because of the fear. There is a very real fear that anything could happen to our families at any given moment. He wa nts to families at any given moment. He wants to continue highlighting what he sees as controversial issues. Its he sees as controversial issues. Its abnormal behaviour and relationships between government agencies, federal agencies and local enforcement, thats something thats abnormal, its not normal. Ifeel thats all we can do is challenge. I feel music needs to be an act of expression that is thought provoking andi expression that is thought provoking and i dont agree that you can make music without reflecting your reality. If deported, his relative may end up here in tijuana, the city receives more deportees than any along the border. For them its a painful contradiction, they feel like foreigners in the country they we re like foreigners in the country they were born in. Thats my mother. Chriss tattoos tell a story of a rough life. As a youngster he got involved in gangs, guns and drugs, spending his teenager years injail in the us but he was deported to mexico because he was born there. He was dropped into a place he barely knew, having to speak a language he had already forgotten. Knew, having to speak a language he had already forgottenlj knew, having to speak a language he had already forgotten. I think about what i want to say in english and i have to translate in my mind to be able to say it. Some words i cant even pronounce in spanish. Thats really the reason why call centres have worked out for me. This is a call centre, many of the people working here have been deported from the us. Hello, this is chris, the purpose for my call is to inform you that your Manufacturer Warranty has expired on your 2012. That your Manufacturer Warranty has expired on your 2012. It might be surprising to people in the states to know theyre talking to a tattooed ex gang members and surely rival gangs in the same workplace is a recipe for disaster. You have maybe some southerners, those are they represent like the number 13, usually theyre from the south. And then you have a group of People Like Us then you have a group of People Like Us and some of my friends who are northerners and who are with the number 1a. Northerners and who are with the number14. In northerners and who are with the number 1a. In the states, we cant stand seeing each other and cant, for the most part, there is not even talking, nothing like that, we see open other and its just, talking, nothing like that, we see open other and itsjust, wejust go at it. No questions asked. Here, you know, we keep it respectful and make it work. For the sake of workplace and trying to live a peaceful life. This gentleman right here in the row where i am sitting, he has a tattoo on his arm and face. Chris is a supervisor here and doesnt even think of going back to his old life. But the new one hasnt been easy. Sometimes people give you that opportunity, they see you and theyre like, doesnt know any better. Stupid little gangster want to be here, stupid druggy or addict, deportee however they want to label you, they look down on you. Tijuana may be a few miles from the states but its a different world. May be a few miles from the states but its a different world. Back home, you just cant go anywhere here, you start selling drugs. To get by or make money or hustle or whatever. It doesnt work like that. You need permission i hearfrom somebody and who that is, god knows, but, you know, if you dont have the permission, you can pretty much count on you being found dead somewhere. I have travelled across town to an Evangelical Church housing hatian migrants. Its a place to worship, its also a shelter and a place of limbo. Thousands of them are stranded. They fled their country after the 2010 earthquawe but are unable to enter the us due to an obama policy aimed at diswading more from arriving. Christopher and his countrymen are the latest example of the stories that for decades have been part of this town. Tijuana is a place of aspirations, broken dreams, of new beginnings, its a city where people have learned to navigate being so close to the us, and yet so far. So thats it. The end of my road trip. It has been a fascinating journey along a pa rt been a fascinating journey along a part of the world that belongs to mexico and the us and in a way to neither. This is a land of paradox, a land of extremes. It can be cruel, violent and imposing and at the same time beautiful, gentle, and gracious. It is a place where people have learned to live in a strange intimacy with a wall and probably many more will have to do the same. On this strip i have seen the challenges of building more barriers, talked to people happy with a wall in the backyard and to those that believe that more fences wont stop migrants, nor drugs. This border is, after all, home to millions of people that no matter what you think of the wall, now face a dramatic, momentous and divisive time. Hello. We have been talking about how Tropical Storms and hurricanes can throw computer models into a spin and make forecasting the weather here that more difficult. This area of cloud has been named Tropical Storm harvey, its heading to the caribbean. This cloud could develop into another storm and thats further north and could get entrained into the flow. We are seeing that at the moment, some of this cloud contains remanents of hurricane gert and is making the forecast more uncertain. Saturday looks straightforward. Sunshine and showers. The showers many across the northern half of the uk. Not as many showers or as heavy as on friday and it wont be as windy either. Still not that warm for the time of year. In glasgow we are likely to catch some showers. Through the evening those showers will tend to fade away because we have briefly a ridge of High Pressure building in across the uk. Clearing the skies, and temperatures ten, 12, similar to what we have seen recently. First signs of rain arriving to the far south west to the end of the night and this rain contains some of that tropical air from and this rain contains some of that tropical airfrom that and this rain contains some of that tropical air from that ex her cane. Not much rain for the ex hurricane. The wetter weather is likely to be across Northern Ireland later and east across the uk. The sunshine turning more hazy but a daent day on the whole. There may not be a lot of rain from this ex hurricane system but its going to drag in warm air briefly and humid airtoo. We to drag in warm air briefly and humid air too. We may find monday and tuesday temperatures not far off 27. Thats mainly the south east of the uk. The wafrmer air behind this warm front here will push some rain northwards and eastwards overnight and into monday, that rain slow moving across east anglia and Northern England and north wales. Again heavier rain likely for Northern Ireland, perhaps to the south west of scotland. You can see temperatures, and the difference in northern parts of the uk where temperatures are up to around 17 or 18. To the south, we have a conservative 2a there in the south east but it could be even higher. It will be humid too. We still have remanents of that humidity and warmth across the south east on tuesday. Further north a messy mixture of showers and cooler air. Temperatures in that humid airgetting up cooler air. Temperatures in that humid air getting up to around 25 or so humid air getting up to around 25 or so in london. That brief warmth is just going to be brief, its probably gone by wednesday. We are going to be cooling down from the north as we see a band of showers that could be quite heavy heading to the south east. We start later next week with low pressure. It is slower to move away, it does eventually move to the continent allowing a cool northerly air flow for a time. Before High Pressure builds in across the uk, again its slower and again uncertainties across the computer models as to how far north it will build. Some of them only really build the high briefly across more southern parts of the uk arrow louing that atlantic care to come in and bring some rain. Everything is slower now, so still showers in the outlook at first before the High Pressure builds in but it may only hang around briefly and more especially across the southern half of the uk but because of all those hurricanes or ex hurricanes there is a lot to play for. Tonight at ten tributes pour in for the television legend, sir bruce forstyth, who has died at the age of 89. A star of strictly he passed away at home this afternoon surrounded by his family. Hed been ill for some time. Its its nice to see you. To see you. Nice from the generation game to the price is right, sir bruce proved to be one of the most popular and versatile entertainers of his generation. If you want an all round entertainer, i think you think, first of all, bruce forsyth. When you think of bruce, you smile. Because it was his warmth, his charm, his sense of fun, the way he embraced you when you spoke to him. That came across to the public always. Now youre here

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