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 ...

Mexicans are still being arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border, but not for what you think.Six men were arrested for stealing pieces of the U.S. border fence to sell as scrap metal, according 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 ...