Larry Towell The wall, in densely populated areas, is equipped with sensors, spotlights, and parked Border Patrol vehicles which include four wheelers. This surveillance has driven many of the migrants to attem (...)
pt to cross through the mountains and deserts where many die of exposure and dehydration, are vulnerable to vipers or may be attacked by vigilante groups on the US side. California. USA. 2006. © Larry Towell | Magnum Photos
Larry Towell Mexican resentment runs high in the border towns. Here, a memorial has been constructed onto the US-Mexico wall to honor the more than 3000 migrants who, at the time, had died attempting to cross t (...)
he border illegally. The current figure is estimated at over 4000. Children walk along the wall known locally as "the scar" on their way home from school. Tijuana. Mexico. 2006. © Larry Towell | Magnum Photos
Larry Towell At Tijuana Beach, the wall that separates the US from Mexico is rubber coated steel track driven vertically into sand and Pacific Ocean. There are some gaps in the wall wide enough for humans to pa (...)
ss through. On the US side the beach is under surveillance by parked Border Patrol vehicles, sensors, spotlights and helicopters. Heavy surveillance has driven many migrants to attempt mountains and desert crossings where many die of exposure and dehydration, are vulnerable to wild animals and vipers, or may be attacked by vigilante groups once on the US side. Here, teenage Mexican girls visit the wall which is a local tourist site. Tijuana. Mexico. 2006. © Larry Towell | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael The border wall just outside of Brownsville on the land of the Nature Conservancy, home to one of two Sabel Palm groves in the United States. The fence has smalls holes cut in it, ostensibly to con (...)
tinue to allow normal migratory patterns of animals who traditionally crossed the land now blocked by the fence. Brownsville. Texas. USA. 2016. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini Sunday Mass on both side of the border fence in Tijuana. Every Sunday, people gather along the fence to comunicate through the border fence with their relative who lives and works illegaly in USA. (...)
Tijuana. Mexico. December 18, 2016.
The mesh of the fence are so tight that it is impossible for the families to touch and hardly to be seen. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos