What US-Mexico border looks like before Donald Trump's wall
27 Jan 2017 1:25 PM IST27 Jan 2017 1:25 PM IST
The financing of the project, which is aimed at clamping down on illegal immigration, has sparked tensions between the two countries.
Trump had signed an executive order telling officials to begin to 'plan, design and construct a physical wall' along the 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) US-Mexico border, making good on a central campaign pledge. A border patrol vehicle sits along the US-Mexico border wall in San Ysidro, California.- A military convoy pass near the Mexico-US border fence, on the Mexican side, separating the towns of Anapra, Mexico and Sunland Park, New Mexico. (Photo: AP)
- A US border patrol truck drives along the border line between Mexico and the US in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
- Border patrol agents patrolling the United States-Mexico border wall.
- View of a mural painted on the US-Mexico border wall in Tijuana, Mexico.
- President Donald Trump ordered work to begin on building a wall across the Mexican border.
- People walk on at Otay's Pedestrian Crossing on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border, on the outskirts Tijuana, northwestern Mexico.
- Trucks line up to cross to the United States near the Otay Commercial port of entry on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border.
Trump had signed an executive order telling officials to begin to \'plan, design and construct a physical wall\' along the 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) US-Mexico border, making good on a central campaign pledge. A border patrol vehicle sits along the US-Mexico border wall in San Ysidro, California.
The financing of the project, which is aimed at clamping down on illegal immigration, has sparked tensions between the two countries.
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