The Border Patrol opens a gate to the mesh covered fence area during weekends and allows no more than 25 people at a time to gather there. They get together between the metal mesh. Border Patrol ...

up to a 20-foot-tall metal and concrete border fence — and passed right through a gap in the barrier wide enough for a tractor-trailer. Because of international treaty and flood zone ...

What types of fence are on the border today? So-called "pedestrian fences ... Vietnam-era helicopter landing mats. They are solid metal and nontransparent. 2. Bollard-style fences are made ...

Border Patrol says smuggler used ramp ... The smugglers had driven their silver SUV up a metal ramp on the Mexican side of the fence and were trying to drive down a ramp on the U.S. side when ...

A 15-to-18-foot tall metal border fence, which residents refer to as a wall, has stood between the neighborhood and the concrete riverbed for years. “We already have a wall — to us ...

Instead of building new walls, the Department of Homeland Security has replaced old barriers in some border areas and erected new fences in a few locations. Those metal barriers mostly are 12 to ...

NOGALES - The border in Nogales is getting a face-lift that Border Patrol officials say will make it harder on smugglers and keep agents safer. The agency is replacing 2.8 miles of landing-mat ...