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Sights and Sounds Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

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Flying toward El Paso, Texas, from Ciudad Juarez, over the border between Mexico and the United States. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
Mexicans look through the U.S.-Mexico border fence into the United States from a Mexican beach west of Tijuana. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
A section of the U.S. border fence facing Mexico, viewed from a dirt road near Jacumba, California. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. United States, 2012.
Looking north towards the United States from west of Tecate, Mexico: A section of the old U.S. border fence near a newer taller section of the fence. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
Standing in Nogales, Sonora, beside the U.S. border fence in the separated twin cities of Nogales. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent sits in a truck monitoring the U.S.-Mexico border near a residential neighborhood in Calexico, California. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. United States, 2012.
A section of the old U.S. border fence separating Imperial Beach, California, seen from the western edge of Tijuana with a newer taller second U.S. border fence in the background. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
A view of the U.S. border fence west of Ciudad Juarez looking north to New Mexico in the United States. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
A section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence seen from just west of Yuma, Arizona. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. United States, 2012.
The border fence between New Mexico and Chihuahua, west of Ciudad Juarez. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
Standing in the middle of the dry river bed of the Rio Grande where the U.S. border fence with Mexico ends, to the east of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
Looking toward the U.S. border fence in Texas from Chihuahua, Mexico, past the Rio Grande river in the Juarez Valley, near a grade control structure which keeps the river border between the U.S. and Mexico from shifting. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
Tire tracks of unknown vehicles in the desert east of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, near the U.S. border near the town of Porvenir in the Juarez Valley. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
A U.S. Border Patrol Agent on a dirt road in a heavily vegetated area near the banks of the Rio Grande river and Mexican border in a section of the border well-known for smuggling and illegal crossing of the U.S. border. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
Holding a U.S. passport, a man coming from Mexico lines up at a port of entry into Laredo, Texas, under the watchful eye of a U.S. Border Patrol agent and a dog used to sniff out illegal narcotics. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. United States, 2012.
An auto parts manufacturing facility, located in Nogales, Mexico, where electronic parts are made for vehicles worldwide. Known in Mexico as a maquiladora, it is a factory with a special customs designation. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
Migrant laborers from Guerrero State who work at a farm near Culiacan, Sinaloa, pick tomatoes destined for export across the border to the United States and Canada. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
Some of the thousands of commercial trucks carrying goods into the United States line up at U.S. customs port of entry dedicated to commercial traffic in Laredo, Texas. This is one of the most important land border crossings for trade between the U.S. and Mexico. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. United States, 2012.
Marisol Espinoza, a 20-year-old woman from Chiapas, Mexico, in a shelter for deportees and migrants the night after she was deported from the United States. Marisol had crossed into the United States and walked through the Arizona desert for six days before she was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
A U.S. Drug Enforcement agent (DEA) aims a flashlight down a 55-foot deep drug smuggling tunnel that runs almost 240 yards under the U.S.-Mexico border. It was cut through a floor of a small industrial unit south of Yuma, Arizona, in the town of San Luis. It is estimated that the tunnel built by a Mexican drug cartel cost up to $1 million and took one year to build. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. United States, 2012.
U.S. Border Patrol agents stack bundles of marijuana seized from a vehicle at a checkpoint on the I-35 highway just north of the key port of entry from Mexico located in Laredo, Texas. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. United States, 2012.
A Mexican soldier stands guard by a bullet-riddled vehicle in which two men were executed by drug cartel assassins in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
A heavily armed man who was killed by the Mexican military during an operation trying to hunt down the head assassin of the Sinaloa Cartel known as 'El Fantasma' in Quila which is believed to be territory controlled by El Mayo, a Mexican drug lord associated with the Sinaloa Cartel just outside Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
The body of a man executed and dumped on the side of the highway in Navolato, Sinaloa, the birthplace of one of the former leaders of the Juarez Cartel. Navolato is located next to the home turf of the Sinaloa Cartel who were locked in a battle for control of Ciudad Juarez for several years. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.
A police officer stands by children just out of school, all of whom are looking at the scene of a drug-related shooting of a man in front of their schoolyard in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012.

This slideshow traces a number of key points on the U.S.-Mexico border, from Laredo, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez in the east through Nogales (Arizona and Mexico), and Yuma, Arizona, and then north to Calexico, California and west to Tijuana, Mexico. Topics explored are the physical border and landscape, cross-border trade, security, immigration, drug trafficking and organized crime.

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