Photos: Texas and the Mexican border
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Beyond the Wall: Texas border with Mexico in photos.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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Two young boys play while their families and others are detained at the Department of Homeland Security's Centralized Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, on May 17, 2016.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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Migrant families receive assistance from volunteers at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas. Families arrive by bus after processing by the Department of Homeland Security.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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Jorge Alfredo Batres Mena, 24, consoles his son Danny Mena, 4, who was feeling ill while they await help from the Catholic Charities of Rio Grande Valley volunteers in McAllen, Texas. The pair are from El Salvador.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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Danny Mena, 4, looks for comfort from his dad, Jorge Alfredo Batres Mena, 24, while they get help from the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in McAllen, Texas.Β
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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Sunflowers glow in the late-day light against a perimeter fence around Laredo Community College. The campus is just a few hundred feet from the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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Sun sets on the border town of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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Laredo, Texas resident Juan Rodriguez, 14, casts his line out to fish for catfish in the Rio Grande River at Los Dos Laredos Park just across the border from Mexico on May 16, 2016. Latitude: 27.499321 Longitude: -99.510942
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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A Border Patrol agent drives along the Levee Road border fence nearly 1,000 feet from a bend in the Rio Grande River in Brownsville, Texas.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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The border fence snakes through private farmland in Brownsville, Texas.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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A walking path at Laredo Community College is within sight of security cameras and perimeter fencing at the Rio Grande River in Laredo, Texas.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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The Rio Grande River undulates just west of the Hidalgo port of entry in Hidalgo, Texas.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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Jesse Reyes, walks through a massive vehicle gate in his Brownsville, Texas backyard, where the border fence runs directly. Nearby landowners each get a unique passcode to the gate, which allows access to their land on the other side of the fence.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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A Border Patrol agent on an ATV searches for migrants who agents tracked through a heavily treed area near Brownsville, Texas.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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A Union Pacific freight train heads north across the Rio Grande River into Laredo, Texas.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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A pair of couches are dumped on the side of the road near where the border fence stretches across a swath of farmland near the Rio Grande River in Brownsville, Texas.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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A man fishes on the Rio Grande near Anzalduas Park in Mission, Texas. Reynosa, Mexico is in the background.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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Mark Clark, artist and owner of Galeria 409, can see the U.S.-Mexico border fence from his gallery's balcony in Brownsville, Texas.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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The eastern-most stretch of border fence runs out just east of Brownsville, Texas.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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The port of entry between Hildago, Texas and Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico (top) in Hidalgo, Texas.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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A sign on Pamela Taylor's propertyΒ calls for political action. Taylor's property runs right up to the Rio Grande River in Brownsville, Texas.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Jorge Alfredo Batres Mena, 24, consoles his son Danny Mena, 4, who was feeling ill while they await help from the Catholic Charities of Rio Grande Valley volunteers in McAllen, Texas. The pair are from El Salvador.
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Laredo, Texas resident Juan Rodriguez, 14, casts his line out to fish for catfish in the Rio Grande River at Los Dos Laredos Park just across the border from Mexico on May 16, 2016. Latitude: 27.499321 Longitude: -99.510942
2016 Border Project: Texas
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Jesse Reyes, walks through a massive vehicle gate in his Brownsville, Texas backyard, where the border fence runs directly. Nearby landowners each get a unique passcode to the gate, which allows access to their land on the other side of the fence.
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