A man walks past the painted border fence in Agua Prieta, Mexico, in July 2015. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza/Cronkite News)
PHOENIX – With President Donald Trump’s executive order to move forward with construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall, people across the country are turning their gazes south. Cronkite News journalists report from communities on both sides of the border. Here is a gallery of photos from their travels.
A look at the current border fence between the United States and Mexico in Nogales on Wednesday, January 25, 2016. (Photo by Josh Orcutt/Cronkite News)
People wait to cross the border into El Paso, Texas, from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza/Cronkite News)
People walk near the border crossing in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua to El Paso, Texas. (Photo by Cronkite News)
A border fence separates Nogales, Sonora (left) and Nogales, Arizona (right) on Monday, March 28, 2016. (Photo by Cronkite News)
A look at the current border barrier between the United States and Mexico in Nogales on Wednesday, January 25, 2017. (Photo by Josh Orcutt/Cronkite News)
Carlos Santa Cruz, a landscaper who lives near the wall in Nogales, Arizona, stands in front of the border fence in Nogales on January 25, 2016. (Photo by Josh Orcutt/Cronkite News)
A man and boy wait for the bus in front of the border fence in Nogales, Sonora in 2016. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza/Cronkite News)
This area of fence stands along the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona on Wednesday January 25, 2017. (Photo by Taylor Rearick/Cronkite News)
Nicole Spindler, 21, visits the southern border for the first time in 2015. (Photo by Carla Leon/Cronkite News)
A detailed view of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, AZ on January 25, 2017. (Photo by Taylor Rearick/Cronkite News)
The Morley Gate Border Station is a Nogales port of entry for pedestrians crossing into the U.S. (Photo by Zach Quinn/Cronkite News)
Purple graffiti with the words “justice for Jose Antonio!” marks part of the border fence on the Mexico side in 2015. (Photo by Alicia Clark/Cronkite News)
A pedestrian crossing in San Ysidro, California, allows Mexican border officials to enforce new rules at this border point of entry in 2015. (Photo by Carla Leon/Cronkite News)
Pedestrians cross the border in San Ysidro, California. (Photo by Carla Leon/Cronkite News)
A Border Patrol agent in a truck looks over the current border fence between the United States and Mexico in Nogales on January 25, 2017. (Photo by Josh Orcutt/Cronkite News)