Subject: US-Mexico photos
Date: Jun 13, 2001 @ 16:58
Author: Dallen Timothy (Dallen Timothy <dtimothy@asu.edu>)
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US-Mexico photos

I took these pictures last week.

1) This picture shows that the US-Mexico border fence is actually inside the United States by about one meter.  The actual boundary of course is marked by the tip of the obelisk.  The front of the white truck and the back of the red car are technically in the United States.

2) Here the fence is one the Mexican side of the boundary, which is technically an infringement on Mexican sovereignty since it is a US border patrol fence!  The border in these pictures runs precisely along the edge of the road.

3) At this point the fence appears also to be on the Mexican side of the border, unless there has been a change in the road course, which I doubt since this pic was taken only a few hundred feet from the last one, and the road appears to be an exact straight line.

4) This photo shows a place in the border fence where Mexicans cross into the United States illegally.  Notice all the footprints, the broken wire, and the abandoned water bottles!

5) sorry, this is the same as number 4, so I didn't send it.

6) At this point, the border goes through a dry stream bed.  You can see that the fences is completely torn down at this point.  Maybe you can see all of the footprints in the riverbed where people cross in the US in search of employment.

7) Here the fence was rebuilt neatly last year because of the international horse race that takes place along it every 40 years.  I'm on the Mexican side looking across to the USA.  In the race the Mexican horses run down the Mexican side and the Amercans down the US side.  Of course the border patrol keeps a very watchful eye on this competition.  Notice the floodlights and border patrol vehicle in the distance.

8) Here is where cattle cross from Mexico into the United States.  The border is the barbed-wire fence in front of the weeds.  The cattle crossing is the white columns and red gate with it.  Cows are held on the Mexican side until they are inspected, and then they're hearded to the US corrals across the road/border.

9) Here is the US Border Patrol driving along the fence dragging old tires to clear the ground of footprints!!

10) Here is an anti-vehicular trench (you mentioned this one Bill) in Douglas/Agua Prieta.  I took this picture from the US side.  The fence here is only about one foot in the United States and the trench about four feet in the country.  The trench was doug MANY years ago, when there wasn't a steel barricade, and people would drive their cars across anywhere along the border.

Hope these are of interest,
Dallen


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