A boutique shop window that greets pedestrian traffic (reflected) as they exit the border crossing.

A vendor looks for more customers as people wait in line on active train tracks to cross legally into the USA. I wish I would have slowed my shutter speed to show the train moving.

A pregnant woman waits in the hot sun to enter the USA.

After spotting the border patrol, a man climbs the fence back into Mexico.

The border fence

Waiting for a family member, the man at right is a US citizen, but his daughter isn’t.

Bringing a lot of milk to Mexico.

A border patrol agent watches the fence in hills over Nogales as the sun goes down.

One note I want to make, something I say all the time, but I feel compelled to tell people again and again. Mexico is so much more than what you see around the borders. The problems around the border are a direct result of US policy, specifically our failed war on drugs. Prohibition creates this situation, look at Chicago from 1920 to 1933. Just my two cents. Feliz cinco de mayo.

I would love to have a couple of weeks to explore this massive city and it’s people, but I only had a few hours. Future, much longer trip to Mexico city is on my radar for future travel. KEIN BLITZ!