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Susan Meiselas US/Mexican Border, 8:00 am Undocumented workers discovered in "drop off" site, Interstate 5. Oceanside, CA USA.. 1989. (From the series: CROSSINGS) © Susan Meiselas | Magnum Photos
Susan Meiselas US/Mexican Border, 1:00 am Arrest of undocumented worker by U.S. Border Patrol near Tijuana. Tijuana. Mexico. 1989. (From the series: CROSSINGS) © Susan Meiselas | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake Series exploring real lives, landscapes, and visual cliches about the US border with Mexico during a road trip from San Diego to El Paso. Glamis, CA. USA. 2016. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake Newspaper obituary photos collected over time from the Falfurrias Facts newspaper. Displayed on a shelving cabinet in the newspaper office. Falfurrias, TX. USA. 2017. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Peter van Agtmael Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, seen with a zoom lens across the Rio Grande River from a park on the border. Laredo, 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. (...)
Josef Koudelka ISRAEL. 2012. Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem area.

The Wall has attracted a large number of mural artists from around the world. © Josef Koudelka | Magnum Photos
Alex Webb Mexican children playing with kite on the U.S. side of the border. (they are in the U.S. illegally.) The houses below them are in Tijuana, Mexico, where they live. San Ysidro, Ca. USA. © Alex Webb | Magnum Photos