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The Border Wall at Nogales – La Barda de la Frontera de Nogales

Opinions about this 18-foot-high barrier of rusting metal range from those who do not think it exist to those (like Donald Trump) who think it should be buttressed to become even more of a barrier. Like it or not, this wall is a defining image of the separation...

Coming Through – Pasando

A Union Pacific train waits at the international border as a U.S. Customs official opens the gate to allow it to cross the border. Un tren de Union Pacific espera en la frontera internacional como un agente de aduanas EE.UU. abre la puerta para que pueda cruzar la...

La Roca El Balcon

La Roca el Balcon Restaurant & Bar, just across the border in Nogales, Sonora, has been an Ambos Nogales landmark since it opened in 1972. The building is built over the side of a rock hill, which adds to its amazing ambiance. Vibrant contrasts in light...

Remembering Jose Antonio

On the night of October 10, 2012, 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was walking home on Calle Internacional in Nogales, Sonora. It would be his last walk, as a Border Patrol officer shooting his pistol from a protected area behind the border wall gunned Jose...

Life in a Nogales, Mexico Landfill

They came from Nogales and other parts of Mexico to live in this ramshackle collection of structures located next to a public landfill in Nogales, Sonora. This group of people, many of them migrants who were unable to cross the border and ended up trapped in Nogales,...