40 Stunning Photos Of The US-Mexico Border and the People Behind The Fences

Santa Fe Bridge, which connects Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas, as seen from above.

Border Patrol agent catches up to a suspected drug smuggler fleeing via Rio Grande.

Aerial view showing Yuma, Arizona on the left and San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora on the right.

Migrants aboard on top of the train bound for the US-Mexico border.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent in search of migrants who may have crossed the border.

A woman chats with and gets hugged by her husband from the other side of the border fence.

A pickup truck loaded with packs of marijuana, seized in April 2013.

A long-exposure photograph of a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle driving along the Mexican side of the divide.

This migrant was caught crossing the border via Rio Grande.

Mauricia Horta worked in the United States but in September 2008, she drove up to a roadblock in Escondido, Calif. to pick up her kids. Since then, she’s been separated from her kids and has been forced to work in her old country.