On the US-Mexico border

The border between the US and Mexico stretches for 3169 kilometers, crossing deserts, rivers and cities from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. Each year 350 million people legally cross the border and another 500,000 enter the United States illegally. Guarding the border fences are made of concrete and steel, infrared cameras, sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles and almost 20,000 American border guards.

Today we know what is happening on the border of the United States and Mexico and how it looks.
34 pictures and a short text taken here





The large influx of Mexican migrants who want to get into the US and do not have the opportunity to legally cross the border to settle in Tijuana, Mexico. In the photo: the deported migrants climb over a fence on the US-Mexican border in preparation for the annual march 6 migrants in Tijuana, organized to draw attention to the problems of migration on February 2, 2011.



Right - Mexico, the left - the United States, San Ysidro, CA, February 17 2012.



US border guards near San Diego, California on March 26, 2013.



On the US-Mexico border. Left - Tijuana - a city in northwestern Mexico, the largest in the state of Baja California and the western-most in Latin America, ahead of - the Pacific Ocean. February 17, 2012.



The border between the US and Mexico, leaving the Pacific Ocean, of Tijuana, Mexico, 22 September 2012.



Currently, Mexico is the main foreign supplier of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine in the United States, and the Mexican drug cartels dominate the wholesale illicit drug market in the United States. Also read the article about the drug war in Mexico.

One way to deliver drugs to the United States - to dig an underground tunnel. The tunnel leads from Mexico to California. There was seized 14 tons of marijuana, 16 November 2011.



This tunnel dug until the end did not have time, and he was found. On the US-Mexico border on 6 December 2012.



On the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico September 19, 2009. Some 500 000 entering the US illegally, waiting by the fence, while the US will pass the border guards.



American bespitotnik MQ-9 Predator B, patrolling the border 12 hours a day at an altitude of 5800 meters. UAVs are looking for smugglers and illegal migrants, March 7, 2013



Dust from racing along the US-Mexico border US patrol 90 km from San Diego



The fence on the US-Mexico border near the city of Nogales, Arizona, March 8, 2013.



Ubiquitous service Google Street View is racing along the border of Mexico and the United States. By the way, climbing over a fence should not be difficult.



Along the border, from Mexico delivered 276 such monuments. All of them were built in the 1890s.



American border guard in La Joya, Texas, April 10 2013.



Detained illegal at the site boundary in Texas on April 11, 2013.



On the US-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, March 8, 2013.



Unsuccessful attempt to illegally cross the border near the city of Yuma, Arizona, October 31, 2012. The calculation of the length of the ramps was wrong, the angle is too sharp and the car got stuck. The height of the fence here - 4.27 m.



A simple fence on the US-Mexican border, stimulating the desire to climb through it. The area of ​​the National Park "Organ cactus."



On the border of the United States (left) and Mexico (right). Playing volleyball,



In many places, the US-Mexican border in the form of fences and protected road simply ends to begin again in a few kilometers. This is clearly visible from the air, for example, in south-eastern Arizona, where the road serving overseas, ends on a hillside.



Border area near the city of Nogales, Arizona, July 6 2012.



The drugs from Mexico to the United States carry such amounts that can not do without transport. That border guards caught the buggy with a trailer full of marijuana (about 100 kg). When approaching the guards threw a good driver and fled.



In search of a better life. Illegals cross the border near the city of Nogales, Arizona



US-Mexican border, Arizona, November 10, 2010. Some live just a few meters from the foreign territory.



On the left - a desert area near the US city of Yuma, Arizona, to the right - the town of San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico.



Zigzag Amistad Reservoir on the Rio Grande, which is part of the border.



Here illegals trying to swim across the Rio Grande in the direction of Texas on April 11, 2013.



Migrants traveling on the roof of the train, heading for the US-Mexico border on April 29, 2013. By the way, migrants often become victims of criminal gangs who kidnap them for ransom



The official control and omissions item, linking Ciudad Juarez in Mexico (below) with the US city of El Paso, Texas.



Divided. A woman talking to her husband over the fence on the border on July 28, 2010. Most likely, one of them managed to cross the border to another - no.



Detained car packed full of marijuana for the US market. Texas on April 11, 2013.



Caught at the border crossing drug dealer. Perhaps since that the detained vehicle. Texas on April 11, 2013.



Border guards patrolling his land on the outskirts of San Diego, California.

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