The US border wall separates Jacumba, Calfornia, USA from Jacume, Baja California, Mexico in the high desert.  Even after the first border barricade was built in 1995 to disrupt human and drug traffickers, residents from Jacume on the Mexico si
A double border wall, actually further inside the US prevents undocumented migrants from using the Tijuana River, on the other side of the second fence, as a corridor into the United States.  In the 1980's, entire families would rush across the
When I first visited the US / Mexican border where it meets the Pacific in the 1980's, there was a single corrugated steel wall and chain-link fence that ended at the top of the beach.  It reminded me of the Berlin Wall.  (See the "Sin Fro
Bandit Country: Looking south into Mexico from above the unfenced US / Mexico border in the Morron Valley, San Diego County, California, USA.  This lonely stretch of border is known for banditry.    2016
A parked US Border Patrol SUV looks out across the US border wall at Tecate, Mexico, famous for Tecate and Carta Blanca beers, from California.  As is typical along the US / Mexico border, the city on the Mexico side pushes up against the borde
Yellow smoke from a brush fire south of the border is visible above the US border wall which crosses the Imperial/ Algodones Sand Dunes in the Sonora desert near the California/Arizona border.  The increased surveillance further east near Tijua
The US government filled in Smuggler's Gulch with a structure resembling an earthen dam 244 meters long (800 ft.) and 55 meters high (180 ft), built a second tougher triple-thickness border fence topped with razor wire, flood lights, remote sensors
For all the talk of sealing the US border, not all the gaps in the border wall in California are because of the rugged terrain.  The border wall ends and is replaced by a barrier on a desert plain in the Imperial Valley, at the edge of the irri
Wall that separates Calexico, CA, USA from Mexicali, BC, Mexico.  As their names imply, Mexicali on the Mexico side and Calexico on the US side are sister cities but the wall was not always this big.  In the 80's a rickety corrugated steel
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