The international boundary separating Mexico and United States extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. The border traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from urban areas to deserts. It
U.S. Border Patrol at Algodones Sand Dunes, California. The fence on the U.S.–Mexican border is a special construction of narrow, 4.6 m (15 ft) tall elements that are movable vertically. This way, they can be lifted on top of the ever-shifting dunes.
Border Patrol patrolling the Rio Grande in an airboat in Laredo, Texas
The start of the border fence in the state of New Mexico – just west of El Paso, Texas
U.S. Border Patrol helicopter along El Camino del Diablo, Arizona–Sonora border, 2004
Federal Highway 2 is a toll-free part of the Mexican federal highway corridors that runs along the U.S. border. The highway is in two separate improved segments, starting in the west at Tijuana, Baja
Eastbound Fed. 2 just outside Altar, Sonora, after a summer rain
Colorado Bridge, a toll bridge over the Colorado River connecting the states of Baja California and Sonora
The junction between Federal Highways 2 and 15 in rural Imuris, Sonora. Fed. 2 travels east towards Agua Prieta and Ciudad Juarez while Fed. 15 continues northward towards the U.S.-Mexican border crossing in Heroica Nogales, Sonora.