Mexico is just minutes away on foot, the time it takes to walk across one of the bridges that span the Rio Grande, intimately connecting Laredo, Texas to its Mexican sister Nuevo Laredo. The wall Donald Trump promises to build would slice through that, and here as elsewhere in America opinions are divided over whether it’s needed. It’s a sensitive subject in a city that is more than 95 percent Hispanic and many Laredo inhabitants politely decline to comment.
