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U.S.-Mexican border: 3,000 km of chaos

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In 2006, the U.S. Congress endorsed the construction of a barrier about 700 miles (1,100 km) long along the U.S.-Mexican border. It stretches from San Diego in California to Yuma, Arizona.

In 2006, the U.S. Congress endorsed the construction of a barrier about 700 miles (1,100 km) long along the U.S.-Mexican border. It stretches from San Diego in California to Yuma, Arizona.

© Sputnik / Maria Tabak In 2006, the U.S. Congress endorsed the construction of a barrier about 700 miles (1,100 km) long along the U.S.-Mexican border. It stretches from San Diego in California to Yuma, Arizona.
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In 2006, the U.S. Congress endorsed the construction of a barrier about 700 miles (1,100 km) long along the U.S.-Mexican border. It stretches from San Diego in California to Yuma, Arizona.
© Sputnik / Maria Tabak In the outskirts of San Diego, migrants can be seen everywhere. “We are waiting for any job opportunity: we can carry loads, paint walls, mow lawns,” one Mexican national told RIA Novosti while waiting for a job beside Home Depot.
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In the outskirts of San Diego, migrants can be seen everywhere. “We are waiting for any job opportunity: we can carry loads, paint walls, mow lawns,” one Mexican national told RIA Novosti while waiting for a job beside Home Depot.
© RIA Novosti . Maria Tabak It easy to understand the migrants’ reasoning, but it is hard to believe that San Diego...
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It easy to understand the migrants’ reasoning, but it is hard to believe that San Diego...
© RIA Novosti . Maria Tabak …and Mexico’s Colonia Libertad are only a one-hour drive apart.
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…and Mexico’s Colonia Libertad are only a one-hour drive apart.
© RIA Novosti . Maria Tabak Colonia Libertad is notorious for drugs, alcoholism, AIDS, and crime in everyday life.
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Colonia Libertad is notorious for drugs, alcoholism, AIDS, and crime in everyday life.
© RIA Novosti . Maria Tabak A unique place on the U.S.-Mexican border. Here the border is marked by a hardly noticeable yellow strip drawn along a concrete canal. Now the water barely runs here and outcast Mexicans, such as drug addicts, alcoholics and HIV-positive people have settled in.
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A unique place on the U.S.-Mexican border. Here the border is marked by a hardly noticeable yellow strip drawn along a concrete canal. Now the water barely runs here and outcast Mexicans, such as drug addicts, alcoholics and HIV-positive people have settled in.
© RIA Novosti . Maria Tabak In Colonia Libertad one can find a guide across the border, who is aware not only of the gaps but knows the border guards’ detailed schedule. The price of border crossing is $2,000. If a migrant is lucky enough to escape the border guards, there is still an ordeal ahead in the desert.
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In Colonia Libertad one can find a guide across the border, who is aware not only of the gaps but knows the border guards’ detailed schedule. The price of border crossing is $2,000. If a migrant is lucky enough to escape the border guards, there is still an ordeal ahead in the desert.
© Sputnik / Maria Tabak Understanding the hardships of the desert, the activists of Border Angels charity organization leave water for the runaways. Illegal migrants can often find crosses beside the water planted in memory of those who died crossing the border.
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Understanding the hardships of the desert, the activists of Border Angels charity organization leave water for the runaways. Illegal migrants can often find crosses beside the water planted in memory of those who died crossing the border.
© RIA Novosti . Maria Tabak Border guards have to admit that the sea border is easy to cross. It is not rare for migrants to swim around the ramshackle wall to the other side or paddle surf boards loaded with drugs to U.S. territory.
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Border guards have to admit that the sea border is easy to cross. It is not rare for migrants to swim around the ramshackle wall to the other side or paddle surf boards loaded with drugs to U.S. territory.
© RIA Novosti . Maria Tabak The border is a threat not only to illegal migrants, but also to border guards and their patrol dogs. This monument to a dog killed in the line of duty has been erected at the local border guards’ headquarters.
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The border is a threat not only to illegal migrants, but also to border guards and their patrol dogs. This monument to a dog killed in the line of duty has been erected at the local border guards’ headquarters.
© RIA Novosti . Maria TabakOne more unique place at the border: the meeting point for two peoples. On weekends border guards allow migrants who are waiting on U.S. territory for their documents to be processed to approach the border and meet with their families.
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One more unique place at the border: the meeting point for two peoples. On weekends border guards allow migrants who are waiting on U.S. territory for their documents to be processed to approach the border and meet with their families.
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