The border wall that already exists

President Trump has long promised to build a wall along the southern border. But in some parts of California and Arizona, there already is one.

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Nogales, Arizona.
(Image credit: The Associated Press)
The pedestrian border in Nogales, Arizona.
(Image credit: Nov. 7, 2016)

A woman In Tijuana talks to her relatives across a fence.
(Image credit: Nov. 13, 2016)

A gap in the U.S.-Mexico border fence outside Jacumba, California.
(Image credit: Nov. 7, 2016)

A road abruptly ends next to a sign for a cattle ranch near Douglas, Arizona.
(Image credit: Oct. 10, 2016)

A newly-built section of the border fence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
(Image credit: Jan. 25, 2017 ( REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez))

The backyard of a home in Brownsville, Texas, faces the border fence.
(Image credit: Aug. 5, 2014)

The border near Calexico, California.
(Image credit: Feb. 9, 2017)

The border fence in Mexicali, Mexico, painted sky blue.
(Image credit: April 9, 2016)

The border in Calexico, California.
(Image credit: Oct. 8, 2016)

A San Diego beach.
(Image credit: Nov. 13, 2016)

A fence separates the border towns Nogales, Arizona (left), and Nogales, Mexico (right).
(Image credit: Oct. 9, 2016)

Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.