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U.S.-Mexico Border
MAY 2007
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Tijuana, Mexico
Photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel

An improvised wall of military surplus steel cuts a rusty slash toward the horizon. In Tijuana, where poverty is rising and half of all new residents live in squatter communities without clean water, the wall is hard to ignore: Houses push up close to the border. On the U.S. side, development is far removed from the barrier.

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