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The Wall

Travelling the Mexico-U.S. border, the world’s most dangerous land crossing for migrants.

Avery Haines, CTV W5 managing editor and senior correspondent

01 / 07
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SONOITA, ARIZONA

"It's only 7:30 in the morning and it's 30 degrees. It's getting up to 46 or 47 degrees today, and so migrants who managed to find a breach on the wall from the help of coyotes or smugglers are faced with the brutal prospect of trying to navigate the Arizona desert in this stifling heat."

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NOGALES, MEXICO

We discover telltale signs of a migrant crossing -- the route of the death train and discarded passport and ID cards. Here the gate is left wide open for two months of the year because of monsoon season.

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JUAREZ, MEXICO

We landed a rare interview with a human smuggler in the border city of Juarez.

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REYNOSA, MEXICO

In this border city in the northern part of the state of Tamaulipas, we tracked down two girls who we helped rescue in the Darien Gap, six months ago.