Andres Gallegos Arguello stood on the American side of a metallic mesh fence in Friendship Circle between San Diego and Tijuana. This border fence has become a magnet for family reunions. Just don ...

Robert Cameron drove his pickup truck toward the Texas-Mexico border, past cotton and sugar cane fields, up to a 20-foot-tall metal and concrete border fence — and passed right through a gap in ...

Metal mesh fences consist of metal wire or mesh. The pedestrian fencing is mostly 12 to 18 feet high, typically anchored with a concrete foundation. There are various combinations and hybrids.

Maybe they should have gone under the fence instead of trying to go over. The Border Patrol says that two would-be drug smugglers got their Jeep Cherokee stuck on top of the 14-foot fence between ...

Border fence construction is based on operational assessments, engineering, cost and other factors, said Claude Knighten, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman in Washington, D.C.

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 ...

The average cost of 140 miles of pedestrian fencing put up under the Secure Border Initiative in 2005-2008 was $3.9 million per mile, with costs ranging from $400,000 to $15.1 million a mile, a ...