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PHOTOS: U.S., Mexico border sees increased fortification, investment in recent years

By 02/05/2024 | updated 2 years ago
Border Patrol agent, Erik Hernandez, surveils the landscape near Texas' borders with New Mexico and Mexico on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Border Patrol agent, Erik Hernandez, surveils the landscape near Texas' borders with New Mexico and Mexico on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Border Patrol agent, Erik Hernandez, surveils the landscape near Texas’ borders with New Mexico and Mexico on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Border Patrol agents, Erik Hernandez, left, and Orlando Marrero-Rubio examine a high traffic area with an automated surveillance tower (AST) that has remote sensing cameras that feed to a control center monitored by Border Patrol agents on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Border Patrol agents, Erik Hernandez, left, and Orlando Marrero-Rubio examine a high traffic area with an automated surveillance tower (AST) that has remote sensing cameras that feed to a control center monitored by Border Patrol agents on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
A Border Patrol agent sits in a parked vehicle overlooking a valley where immigrants have crossed from Juarez, Mexico in recent years. on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
A Border Patrol agent sits in a parked vehicle overlooking a valley where immigrants have crossed from Juarez, Mexico in recent years. on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Border Patrol agent, Erik Hernandez surveils the landscape near the Texas, New Mexico and Mexican borders on the morning of Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Border Patrol agent, Erik Hernandez surveils the landscape near the Texas, New Mexico and Mexican borders on the morning of Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
A Border Patrol trucks sits unoccupied near the New Mexico-Texas border on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
A Border Patrol trucks sits unoccupied near the New Mexico-Texas border on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Immigrants look for ways to cross a series of recently-erected barbed wire groupings to enter a processing and staging area on the northern bank of the Rio Grande River between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, Denver Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Immigrants look for ways to cross a series of recently-erected barbed wire groupings to enter a processing and staging area on the northern bank of the Rio Grande River between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, Denver Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
A young woman crosses the Rio Grande in hopes of entering the United States between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
A young woman crosses the Rio Grande in hopes of entering the United States between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
A woman and young child await more members of their traveling party on the northern bank of the Rio Grande between the United States and Mexico borders just south of El Paso, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, Denver Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
A woman and young child await more members of their traveling party on the northern bank of the Rio Grande between the United States and Mexico borders just south of El Paso, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, Denver Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Immigrants hoping to enter the United States wait in a staging area on the northern bank of the Rio Grande river just south of El Paso, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Most sections of the border wall are built slightly north of the actual border on the U.S. side so Border Patrol and Department of Homeland Security agents can perform maintenance on the structure. (Tom Hellauer, Denver Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Immigrants hoping to enter the United States wait in a staging area on the northern bank of the Rio Grande river just south of El Paso, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Most sections of the border wall are built slightly north of the actual border on the U.S. side so Border Patrol and Department of Homeland Security agents can perform maintenance on the structure. (Tom Hellauer, Denver Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Immigrants probe areas of recently-installed barbed wire while members of the Texas National Guard watch from a truck on the northern bank of the Rio Grande between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Immigrants probe areas of recently-installed barbed wire while members of the Texas National Guard watch from a truck on the northern bank of the Rio Grande between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
A group of immigrant prepare to cross the Rio Grande River between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. The area has become an immigration hotspot, and particularly deadly for immigrants. Large groups of immigrants have died in river crossings, from exposure in the desert and from cartel activity. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
A group of immigrant prepare to cross the Rio Grande River between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. The area has become an immigration hotspot, and particularly deadly for immigrants. Large groups of immigrants have died in river crossings, from exposure in the desert and from cartel activity. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Immigrants probe sections of recently erected barbed wire while a member of the Texas National Guard watches on in a truck between the Juarez and El Paso border on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Immigrants probe sections of recently erected barbed wire while a member of the Texas National Guard watches on in a truck between the Juarez and El Paso border on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Dust clouds an emergency shelter constructed for immigrants in Juarez, Mexico on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Dust clouds an emergency shelter constructed for immigrants in Juarez, Mexico on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Traffic waits in lines to enter the United States on one of three bridges between the Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas border on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Wait times have ballooned in recent years as increased immigration has caused agents to spend more time in processing. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Traffic waits in lines to enter the United States on one of three bridges between the Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas border on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Wait times have ballooned in recent years as increased immigration has caused agents to spend more time in processing. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
An ICE agent escorts a group of men being deported back across a bridge between El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, Denver Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
An ICE agent escorts a group of men being deported back across a bridge between El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, Denver Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Barbed wire sits atop a section of border wall built by a private group near the Texas, New Mexico border on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Barbed wire sits atop a section of border wall built by a private group near the Texas, New Mexico border on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Three connecting bridges between El Paso, Texas and Jaurez, Mexico have seen increased travel times as an influx of immigration has stressed processing, customs and other operations in the area as seen on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
Three connecting bridges between El Paso, Texas and Jaurez, Mexico have seen increased travel times as an influx of immigration has stressed processing, customs and other operations in the area as seen on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. (Tom Hellauer, The Gazette) (TomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g)
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