Photos: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ and the Mexican border
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Beyond the Wall: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥'s border with Mexico in photos.
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
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Jim Chilton, 77, grazes his cattle on 50,000 acres in Arivaca, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥. He often finds trash left behind by border crossers — clothing, plastic bags, cans of food and water bottles. Drug smugglers cut across his land to make drops of marijuana.Â
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
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Arivaca rancher Jim Chilton opens a cowboy gate that is the U.S.-Mexico border on the Tres Bellotas Ranch. Ranchers install these gates so that when border crossers and drug smugglers come through, they open and close the gate rather than cutting the fence, which can lead to cattle wandering across the border.Â
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
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Rancher Jim Chilton picks up a shoe left by a border crosser on his ranch in Arivaca, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥. On this part of his 50,000 acre ranch, migrants hide under the branches of this oak tree to escape detection from U.S. Border Patrol helicopters above.
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
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Maria Sara Moreno, owner and director of Cri-Cri Kindergarten in Agua Prieta, Sonora, gets a group hug from her kindergartners. The school is one block from the U.S.-Mexico border. Moreno started the school in 1974 with one room. She teaches the kids English so they can attend schools in the United States if their families wish.
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mike Christy / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
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Border Patrol agents bring a suspected drug smuggler into custody after a group was spotted on a mountain range near the border at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge southwest of Ajo, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥.
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
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A deer passes through from Mexico into the United States through the vehicle barrier, or "Normandy" fencing, in the San Pedro River National Conservation Area inside the Coronado National Memorial park in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥. The vehicle barriers are used so wildlife can cross freely.Â
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
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Ophelia Rivas, 59, pulls back a fence at her home near the U.S.-Mexico border fence on the O'odham Community of Ali Jegk in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥. Rivas and other residents post signs to try and keep the U.S. Border Patrol of coming onto their property.
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Updated
Tribal members can cross back and forth through the San Miguel gate on the Tohono O'odham Nation without having to go through a port of entry. A U.S. Border Patrol agent is on site 24 hours a day to check tribal identifications and cars passing through.
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mike Christy / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
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Carmen Diaz, 47, a neighbor of Catalina Ortega, 66, left, and Antonio Ferrez Salazar, 11, right, holds a flower petal to get her dog's attention while the trio visit one afternoon along Avenida Captain Carlos G. Calles, just south of the international border fence in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico.
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
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Francisco Valenzuela Sr. presents his tribal identification to U.S. Border Patrol agent Carlos Ortiz, before crossing back into Mexico through the San Miguel gate on the Tohono O'odham Nation on Thursday June 02, 2016. Valenzuela says he crosses into the United States twice a week to bring water, food and other supplies back to his home. GPS: 31 33' 16.4" N -111 46' 13.2" W
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mike Christy / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Updated
Roger McManus, president of the Friends of the Sonoran Desert, examines a tire drag used by Border Patrol to clear dirt roads so signs like footprints appear more clearly in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, just east of Lukeville, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥.Â
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mike Christy / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Updated
The U.S.-Mexico border fence is comprised of a post-and-rail vehicle barrier on the right, and grate pedestrian fence as it ascends a hill near Puerto Blanco Drive in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument west of Lukeville, Ariz. Latitude: 31.893883 | Longitude: -112.861304
2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Updated
Glenn Spencer built this wall about five years ago after someone pulled an American flag off of a pole he had put up near his property. Over the years people have sent him small flags to post on his walls — they spell out, "Secure the Border First" and, "America."
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2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Jim Chilton, 77, grazes his cattle on 50,000 acres in Arivaca, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥. He often finds trash left behind by border crossers — clothing, plastic bags, cans of food and water bottles. Drug smugglers cut across his land to make drops of marijuana.Â

2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Arivaca rancher Jim Chilton opens a cowboy gate that is the U.S.-Mexico border on the Tres Bellotas Ranch. Ranchers install these gates so that when border crossers and drug smugglers come through, they open and close the gate rather than cutting the fence, which can lead to cattle wandering across the border.Â

2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Rancher Jim Chilton picks up a shoe left by a border crosser on his ranch in Arivaca, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥. On this part of his 50,000 acre ranch, migrants hide under the branches of this oak tree to escape detection from U.S. Border Patrol helicopters above.

2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Maria Sara Moreno, owner and director of Cri-Cri Kindergarten in Agua Prieta, Sonora, gets a group hug from her kindergartners. The school is one block from the U.S.-Mexico border. Moreno started the school in 1974 with one room. She teaches the kids English so they can attend schools in the United States if their families wish.

2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mike Christy / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Border Patrol agents bring a suspected drug smuggler into custody after a group was spotted on a mountain range near the border at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge southwest of Ajo, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥.

2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
A deer passes through from Mexico into the United States through the vehicle barrier, or "Normandy" fencing, in the San Pedro River National Conservation Area inside the Coronado National Memorial park in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥. The vehicle barriers are used so wildlife can cross freely.Â

2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Ophelia Rivas, 59, pulls back a fence at her home near the U.S.-Mexico border fence on the O'odham Community of Ali Jegk in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥. Rivas and other residents post signs to try and keep the U.S. Border Patrol of coming onto their property.

2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Tribal members can cross back and forth through the San Miguel gate on the Tohono O'odham Nation without having to go through a port of entry. A U.S. Border Patrol agent is on site 24 hours a day to check tribal identifications and cars passing through.

2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mike Christy / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Carmen Diaz, 47, a neighbor of Catalina Ortega, 66, left, and Antonio Ferrez Salazar, 11, right, holds a flower petal to get her dog's attention while the trio visit one afternoon along Avenida Captain Carlos G. Calles, just south of the international border fence in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico.

2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Francisco Valenzuela Sr. presents his tribal identification to U.S. Border Patrol agent Carlos Ortiz, before crossing back into Mexico through the San Miguel gate on the Tohono O'odham Nation on Thursday June 02, 2016. Valenzuela says he crosses into the United States twice a week to bring water, food and other supplies back to his home. GPS: 31 33' 16.4" N -111 46' 13.2" W

2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mike Christy / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Roger McManus, president of the Friends of the Sonoran Desert, examines a tire drag used by Border Patrol to clear dirt roads so signs like footprints appear more clearly in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, just east of Lukeville, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥.Â

2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mike Christy / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
The U.S.-Mexico border fence is comprised of a post-and-rail vehicle barrier on the right, and grate pedestrian fence as it ascends a hill near Puerto Blanco Drive in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument west of Lukeville, Ariz. Latitude: 31.893883 | Longitude: -112.861304

2016 Border Project: ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
- Mamta Popat / ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥
Glenn Spencer built this wall about five years ago after someone pulled an American flag off of a pole he had put up near his property. Over the years people have sent him small flags to post on his walls — they spell out, "Secure the Border First" and, "America."
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Ranchers want agents closer to border along with more electronic surveillance.
Ranchers want agents closer to border along with more electronic surveillance.
Customs officers catch a small fraction of the guns smuggled into Mexico.Â
More information
- Judge orders Border Patrol to improve detention conditions
- Trump signs orders to build border wall, penalize 'sanctuary' cities
- Tohono O'odham leaders confident Trump's wall won't rise on their border
- Fraudulent ID busts down at border ports of entry
- Pima County supervisors, ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ City Council formally oppose border wall
- Border Patrol: 360 migrants, mostly families, surrender to agents near Lukeville
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