All this talk of a wall between the U.S. and Mexico has tainted the discussion about immigration in the U.S. — so much so that it’s made us forget about some pretty simple facts.

Donald Trump has already staked his claim to the worst idea in immigration policy—a retrograde mass deportation scheme that was once known as Operation Wetback—but there are plenty of other cockamamie schemes to solve the problem of having a country that workers want to move to. On Wednesday, self-professed teen stabber Dr. Ben Carson announced his own at a press conference.

12 people were killed and 10 more were injured on Sunday when Egyptian anti-terror forces attacked a Mexican tourist convoy they believed to be militants, Reuters reports.

In an appearance on the Rita Cosby WABC radio show, serious Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said, “I’m not going to Mexico. And I don’t think anybody from this country [should],” according to the New York Post. “I think we should boycott Mexico, frankly.”

Overlooked in the all the hubbub about the technical achievement and apparent rampant corruption behind Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s prison break Saturday was a tiny little bird friend used by the drug kingpin to test the air of the mile-long, 30-feet deep tunnel he escaped into from his cell’s shower.

If you were wondering what it looked like when Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán escaped from a maximum-security prison on Saturday night, good news: a security camera was running in his cell the entire time, and the footage was released tonight by Mexican authorities, along with a detailed look at the tunnel that led him to freedom.

The Mexican government has offered a $3.8 million reward for information that leads to the arrest of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the notorious drug kingpin who escaped from a maximum-security prison Saturday night through a mile-long underground tunnel.

Donald Trump, whose overarching personal and political strategy is to make everything about him, is making the prison escape of Mexican cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman about him. Trump has alerted the FBI about death threats that El Chapo’s son allegedly made against him on Twitter, TMZ learned from a source very close to Donald Trump (Donald Trump).

On Sunday, Mexico’s top police official, Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido, announced that drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, kingpin of the Sinaloa Cartel, had escaped from maximum security prison through a hatch in his cell’s shower that opened to a mile-long tunnel.

At least 13 people were killed when a tornado struck the Mexican border city of Ciudad Acuna on Monday, NBC News reports. The tornado, which flipped cars, destroyed homes, and ripped an infant—still missing—from its mother’s arms. At least 230 people were injured.

After days of silence and misreporting, the Mexican resort where Sheryl Sandberg’s late husband allegedly died in an exercise fatality has deleted this photo of its treadmill facility.

Late yesterday, the New York Times reported that David Goldberg, SurveyMonkey CEO and late husband of Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, had been killed after he slipped on a Four Seasons treadmill in Mexico. That’s a strange way to go—but even stranger is that the resort is now denying it.

Farmworkers in Mexico are on strike for the first time in decades, and they probably have a pretty good reason.

A laid-back, friendly fellow known as "the Gentleman" is beloved by all at a bar in Chihuahua, Mexico. All, that is, except the guy who stabbed him in the freakin' head with a pair of scissors.

Mexican officials announced yesterday the detention of Felipe Rodríguez Salgado, who they allege is the leader of the criminal group that killed 43 students and burned their bodies three months ago, the New York Times reports.

The decomposed body of a Mexican actress missing since last February was found in the water tank of a Mexico City apartment building on Christmas Eve. Health officials discovered Carmen Yarira Esparza Noriega's remains after apartment residents complained about the flavor of their drinking water. Police were able to identify her using her hip and breast implants, according to the New York Daily News.

Authorities in Mexico are searching for Hari Simran Singh Khalsa, a yoga teacher from Brooklyn who disappeared Tuesday while on a hike in the Tepozteco Mountains. Before he went missing, Khalsa sent his wife Ad Purkh Kaur, née Emily Smith, a selfie from the mountains with the caption, "Looking down on you"; not long after, Kaur received a second text from Khalsa, saying he had "accidentally summited another mountain" and would be "a little later coming back."

Although Walmart now controls "more than a fifth of all grocery sales" in Mexico, there is still room to expand. Aren't there some poor small local merchants still left to be put out of business?

For several days, the Los Angeles Times has been running an excellent series on the exploitation of farm workers in Mexico. Here is a bit of information on how the people who grow the produce you buy at Walmart are treated.

Mario Alberto Lizalde Reyes turned himself into Chihuahua, Mexico police the day after he allegedly shot his best friend Mario Hernandez Banda dead, cut off his penis, and fed the severed organ to his dog.