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View from the border: the wall dividing the US and Mexico – in pictures
The structure, variously known as the border fence or border wall, is not continuous and only covers sections of the almost 2,000-mile boundary between the two countries. It consists of a series of obstructions designed to discourage illegal entry into the US
The serpentine border wall that separates Mexico from the US ends abruptly on the outskirts of Fort Hancock. Photograph: Daniel Ochoa de Olza/Panos Pictures
Photographs by Daniel Ochoa de Olza
Thu 6 Nov 2025 12.00 GMT
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The border wall comes to a sudden stop in a desert landscape near the town of Mexicali in Baja California
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The setting sun illuminates a mountain that creates a gap in the border wall near Mexicali, Baja California
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The serpentine border wall that separates Mexico from the US ends abruptly on the outskirts of Fort Hancock
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Crosses mark the graves where unidentified people, some of them migrants who tried to cross into the US, are buried near Tijuana
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The border fence between Mexico and US suddenly ends at the Pacific Ocean
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An open ‘door’ along the border fence between Sonora state in Mexico and Arizona in the US. The fence is made of interconnected steel slats
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A very short segment of the border wall in the Altar desert appears to serve no clear purpose.
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A section of the border wall on a hill in the Guadalupe canyon
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An open gate in the border wall
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Jacumba, California. Here, the steel border fence ends suddenly, allowing people to cross between the US and Mexico
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The fence ends on a hill above Tijuana
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A cactus grows inside a car tyre on a road that runs parallel to the border wall in the Altar desert
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The wind lifts a dust cloud at the end of the wall on the outskirts of Fort Hancock
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The border wall stops in the mountains outside of Tecate, Baja California
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Guadalupe canyon
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The wall ends abruptly as it reaches the Tinajas Altas mountains, Camino del Diablo
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