View from the border
A United States Border Patrol agent checks an area under a bridge crossing between the United States and Mexico in El Paso, Texas. El Paso lies across the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a violent city on the frontlines of Mexico's war against drug cartels.
People sit on a beach in Tijuana on the side of a wall separating Mexico and the United States as photographed from Imperial Beach, California. A fence of metal pillars marks the westernmost edge of the nearly 2,000 mile border between the United States and Mexico, which spans five states across the southern U.S.
Horses stand in a field in Campo, a small town located in unincorporated San Diego County.
Graffiti is seen in a building locals say is a former bath house that is now used as a hiding spot for illegal immigrants in Jacumba, California. Jacumba is a small border town of less than 1,000 people known mainly for its hot springs. The town, located about a half a mile from the border in unincorporated San Diego county, does not have a port of entry into Mexico, though residents say there is significant illegal immigrant and drug traffic through the town.
A man sleeps on a bus bench near the border fence in Calexico, California. A city of about 39,000 and a thriving border town, Calexico lies just north of Mexicali, Mexico, a city of nearly one million in California's Imperial Valley. Based on its location, the city is considered prime for transport of goods across the border.
Men walk past a shop on their way towards the San Luis Port of Entry in San Luis, Arizona. Many make the crossing daily, while living in Mexico and working or studying in the U.S., at the San Luis Port of Entry, located across the border from San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico.
A man in need of medical assistance sits in pain at an aid center in Nogales, Mexico. The center serves people who have been recently deported to Mexico, either trying to cross illegally or already residing illegally in the United States.
A boy removes clothes from a clothesline at his home near the border in El Paso, Texas. El Paso lies across the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a violent city on the frontlines of Mexico's war against drug cartels.
