• Guillermo Arias / AP

    A deported migrant climbs the U.S.- Mexico border fence as he prepares for the 6th annual Marcha Migrante, or Migrant March, in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 2.

    On the border: The 6th annual Migrant March kicks off

    By Elena Grothe

    The Marcha Migrante, or Migrant March, began yesterday in San Diego and Playas Tijuana. According to the AP, the Tijuana to Mexicali pilgrimage is organized by the group Border Angels to raise awareness on immigration issues. Marchers are demanding a stop of nighttime deportations and human rights abuses by police on both sides of the border. Read more about Marche Migrante from The San Diego Union-Tribune.

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  • Demonstration against violence held on both sides of U.S.-Mexico border fence

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    Gael Gonzalez / Reuters

    People gather on the border fence separating Mexico and the U.S. as seen from the Mexican side in Ciudad Juarez January 29, 2011. About 200 people gathered on both sides of the border, wishing for peace and an end to violence.

    JESUS ALCAZAR / AFP - Getty Images

    Women hold signs at the Anapra-Sunland Park chain-link fence during a demonstration against violence in the Mexico-United States border in Ciudad Juarez on January 29, 2011. Over 200 people on both sides of the border came together to express their desire for peace and an end to violence in Ciudad Juarez.

    Gael Gonzalez / Reuters

    A man standing on the Mexican side of the border fence separating Mexico and the U.S. flashes the peace sign as people wave peace flags on the U.S. side, in Ciudad Juarez January 29, 2011. About 200 people gathered on both sides of the border, wishing for peace and an end to violence.

     

  • Daniel Mihailescu / AFP - Getty Images

    A Romanian border police oficer inspects a train car coming from Moldova at the Ungheni train border with Moldova on Jan. 18. Romanian border police are tightening controls at the border with Moldova in order to fulfill requirements to enter the border-free Schengen zone in March 2011, but France and Germany have publicly opposed such a move. Bucharest insists that formerly Schengen enlargements were made only on the basis of technical criteria like the implementation of a secure border control system and warns against an "unfair change of the rules".

    Vadim Ghirda / AP

    A Romanian border police officer patrols a railway border crossing point between Romania and Moldova in Ungheni, Romania, Tuesday, Jan. 18. Romania has accused France and Germany of "discrimination" after the EU's two most powerful countries joined forces to block the Balkan country from joining Europe's Schengen open borders zone.

    Patroling a railway border between Romania and Moldova

  • Mexico official: Teen was fatally shot at border fence

    Alonso Castillo / Reuters

    Friends of Ramses Barron hug outside his home while mourning his death in Nogales Jan. 6. A U.S. Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting on the Arizona border with Mexico on Wednesday that resulted in the death of 17-year-old Barron who was trying to illegally scale the border fence, Mexican police said.

    Alonso Castillo / Reuters

    A woman with a dog walks near the border fence between Mexico and the United States in Nogales Jan. 6. A U.S. Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting on the Arizona border with Mexico on Wednesday that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old boy, Ramses Barron, who was trying to illegally scale the border fence, Mexican police said.

    Alonso Castillo / Reuters

    A man holds a jacket belonging to Ramses Barron as a local journalist films it on a street in Nogales, Jan. 6.

    Alonso Castillo / Reuters

    A U.S border patrol vehicle is seen from Nogales, Mexico, as it is parked near the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico, in the sister city of the same name in Arizona Jan. 6. A U.S. Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting on the Arizona border with Mexico on Wednesday that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old boy, Ramses Barron, who was trying to illegally scale the border fence, Mexican police said. The graffiti on the wall reads the name of the street The graffiti on the wall reads the name of the street "Street of the King" where Barron was shot.

     The AP reports:

    NOGALES, Ariz. — Mexico's ambassador to the United States says it appears a teenager who threw rocks at Border Patrol agents in the Arizona city of Nogales died from a gunshot wound.

    The death of 17-year-old Ramses Barron Torres has been in dispute since a Mexican official said the teen died Wednesday after he fell from a border fence and hit his head on a rock.

    But state police in Sonora, across the border from Arizona, said companions of the Barron Torres claim he was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent after the youths had illegally crossed the border.

  • Man's best friend?

    Eric Thayer / Reuters

    A dog chases a boy in Jacumba, Calif., Nov. 7. Jacumba is a small border town of less than 1,000 people known mainly for its hot springs. The town, located about a half a mile from the border in unincorporated San Diego county, does not have a port of entry into Mexico.

    By Katie Cannon, Senior Multimedia Editor

    Your dog may be your best friend, but not everyone else's. Remember to leash your pets to keep not only people safe, but to keep the animals safe as well!

  • Raymundo Ruiz / AP

    Friends and relatives of Luis Alberto Vital, 17, mourn over his coffin during a funeral service in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday Oct. 24. Vital is one of the 14 victims of the attack on two private homes where about four dozen partygoers had gathered for a teen's birthday on Friday night.

    Raymundo Ruiz / AP

    People clean a blood stained patio at a home in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Saturday Oct. 23. At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on this house late Friday during a 15-year-old boy's birthday party.

    The war next door

    Read more here about the drug war in Mexico and how it is linked to the United States.

  • Song Kyeong-Seok / pool via EPA

    North Korean soldiers (back) and US soldiers of the United Nations Command Security Battalion stand guard during a ceremony on the 57th anniversary of the signing of the cease-fire agreement of the Korean War at the Military Demarcation Line in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the border village Panmunjom, South Korea, 27 July 2010.

    Meeting at the DMZ

    I wonder what the interaction was like between the soldiers, if they had much chance to speak. Also, I wonder how the North Korean soldiers perceived the American soldiers, given what I understand to be their limited exposure to foreign tourists and media.

  • Luis Acosta / AFP-Getty Images

    A Salvadorean migrant waits for a train to the border with the United States, in Lecheria, 30 km north of Mexico City, on June 1. On a visit to Washington in May, Mexican President Felipe Calderon urged the US government to repair an outmoded immigration system and do more to ensure that illegal guns do not flow across the countries' shared border.

    Waiting for a train

    There's no way this guy is going to miss his train, one way or another.

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