a brown wall in a green field with blue sky

Surreal photos show walls dividing U.S. and Mexico

A photographer captures scenes along the controversial boundary where politics, culture, and nature intersect.

A steel wall slices through farmland in Brownsville, Texas, north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Built inland of the actual border—the Rio Grande—it comes to an abrupt end, making it easy to circumvent on foot.
Photograph by Richard Misrach
This story about the U.S.-Mexico border wall appeared in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. National Geographic republished this article on January 14, 2019.
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