U.S. / MEXICO BORDER

Select photographic documentation from travels along the length of the Mexico/United States border. Conducting research along the course of over 3,000 miles of fence construction, De St. Croix visited fifteen border crossings, and spoke with people on both sides of the border communities (both geographically and ideologically speaking), including civilian residents, fence contractors, US border patrol, and journalists.

Associated projects: Broken Landscape I, Broken Landscape II, Two Ends, End of the Fence Line, Landscape Section: Border: U.S./Mexico

Photographs

: Construction of 100-mile fence line from El Paso to Ft. Hancock, TX. Heavy-duty grating with anti-ram bollards.

: Fence line between El Paso and Ft. Hancock, TX.

: End of the El Paso–Ft. Hancock fence line.

: Downtown Juarez, 2009. Fire-bombed and bullet-ridden buildings—aftermath of gang warfare.

: Fence line in an agricultural area of Southern Arizona.

: Early stage of fence construction in Arizona. Border Patrol vehicle.

: Old fence in Nogales, AZ.

: Old fence in Nogales, AZ. This section of the wall is constructed from Vietnam War-era corrugated steel.

: Border fence in Heroica Nogales (Sonora, Mexico).

: Heroica Nogales (Sonora, Mexico).

: U.S./Mexico Border at Border Field State Park (Imperial Beach, CA).

: End of the border fence as it runs into the Pacific Ocean at Border Field State Park (Imperial Beach, CA).

: Border Field State Park (Imperial Beach, CA).

: A pair of jeans and a Spanish-language copy of the Holy Bible washed up on the beach at Border Field State Park (Imperial Beach, CA).

: Director of the Spanish-language TV station in Eagle Pass, TX, assisted with research in the area by touring the entire length of the fence.

: Economically struggling area of Eagle Pass, TX, where the government exercised its eminent domain power to requisition land for fence construction. This business refused to move.