Earlier this month, Agence France-Presse photographers Jim Watson and Guillermo Arias traveled the length of the U.S.–Mexico border, one on each side, documenting the landscape and people along the way. Watson on the U.S. side, and Arias on the Mexican side, spent ten days traveling the 3,169 kilometers (1,969 miles) from California / Baja California to Texas / Tamaulipas.
10 Days Along the Border
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Agence France-Presse (AFP) photographers Jim Watson (left) in San Diego, California, and Guillermo Arias, in Tijuana, Mexico, at the US–Mexico border fence on February 13, 2017. #
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Border Patrol Agent Barona checks out the area after receiving a call of seismic activity on a trail near the US–Mexico border in Tecate, California on February 14, 2017. #
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16 year-old Wilfredo Linares (right) from Honduras, stands for a portrait as Jonathan David,16, from El Salvador looks on next to a migrant shelter downtown in Mexicali on February 14, 2017, in northwestern Mexico. #
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A stuffed animal rests next to a brick inscribed with the words "John Doe" in an unmarked dirt lot at the end of Terrace Park Cemetery in Holtville, California, on February 14, 2017, where the remains of hundreds of unidentified migrants are buried. #
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Self-proclaimed nomad Chris Kirkland walks along Country Road B002 while on a cross-country hike outside Columbus, New Mexico, on February 19, 2017, near the border. #
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