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A Mexican boy plays by the U.S.-Mex. border fence.
National Guard soldiers are posted at one of six observation sites along the U.S./Mexico border in Nogales, AZ. The soldiers have been given the task of pulling 24 hour shifts in the cover of a small tent, spotting people crossing the border illegally, and alerting the Border Patrol.
Migrants who crossed the border and got lost in the desert, wait for another ride from a coyote who will help them get to their final destination.

Jorge Martinez, 33, and Jesus Meneses, 27, were both caught by the Border Patrol and met at a migrant shelter in Agua Prieta, Mexico. They plan to try and cross the border again soon.
Jorge Martinez, 33, and Jesus Meneses, 27, were both caught by the BOrder Patrol and met at a migrant shelter in Agua Prieta, Mexico. They plan to try and cross the border again soon.
The U.S.-Mexico fence looking toward Agua Prieta, Mexico.

Lights set up by the Border Patrol next to the U.S.-Mexico border.
National Guard soldiers are posted at one of six observation sites along the U.S./Mexico border in Nogales, AZ. The soldiers have been given the task of pulling 24 hour shifts in the cover of a small tent, spotting people crossing the border illegally, and alerting the Border Patrol.
Border Patrol agents meet in the street after apprehending a man who had crossed illegally. This area of Nogales, AZ, is very close to the fence and people hop the 16 foot fence, and hide in a backyard hoping to avoid the Border Patrol long enough to catch a ride out of the area.

Stadium lights help illuminate a cattle ranch and increase vision for the Border Patrol close to the border of Nogales, AZ.
Guadalupe Leonides Perez-Arce tried to cross the border with her two daughters, Olivia, 13, and Perla, 15, and walked in the desert for two days. The family was caught by the border patrol and Guadalupe was treated for badly swollen feet at the Centro de Recursos para Migrantes (Resource center for Migrants) directly over the border in Agua Prieta, Mexico.
A volunteer treats blisters on a deported migrants foot at the Centro de Recursos para Migrantes (Resource center for Migrants) directly over the border in Agua Prieta, Mexico.

Jesus Meneses, 27, from Chiapas, was caught by the Border Patrol and is about to leave a migrant shelter in Agua Prieta, Mexico to try and cross the border again.
Jesus Meneses, 27, from Chiapas, was caught by the Border Patrol and is staying at a migrant shelter in Agua Prieta, Mexico. He plans plan to try and cross the border again soon.
Two recovering drug addicts work with ‘Agua para la Vida’ (Water for life). Agua para la Vida places and re-fills vats of drinking water in the Mexican desert for migrants about to cross into America.

Clothes dropped from a migrant in the desert on their way to America.
Border Patrol agent Jim Hawkins looks at F-16’s flying overhead as he stands in front of a Border Patrol camera tower that can be controlled remotely to scan for people crossing the border illegally.
Two men who jumped the fence illegally were caught by the Border Patrol a few hundred feet from the border in Nogales, AZ. If they don’t have a criminal record, the two men will be booked, fingerprinted, and ‘voluntarily deported’ back to Mexico with 5 hours.

National Guard soldiers are posted at one of six observation sites along the U.S./Mexico border in Nogales, AZ. The soldiers have been given the task of pulling 24 hour shifts in the cover of a small tent, spotting people crossing the border illegally, and alerting the Border Patrol.
Detainees arrested for crossing the border illegally await deportation in the Border patrol station.

 

 

 

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