Mexican border

The goal of establishing a firm boundary to separate the US from Mexico is nothing new.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis signed an order Friday night that authorizes his department to pay for up to 4,000 National Guard personnel at the border through Sept. 30.

Founded in 1971, Friendship Park is a surveilled beach between San Diego and Tijuana. As the US enacts a new "zero-tolerance" immigration policy that has separated migrant families, a community group is fighting for unrestricted access on both sides of the historic meeting place.

I handed my passport to the Mexican border patrol agent. “Does it take a long time to come back?” I asked him. “Sometimes four hours.” He smirked and averted his eyes. I tried to make small talk anyways but he responded to my words with silence. Within a minute, he’d granted me a visa and I was free to enter Mexico. A few steps later, I crossed the border from the U.S. into Mexico as easily as walking in and out […]

Photographs show a border fence between the countries of Mexico and Guatemala.

Artsy’s editors offer up our take on the 20 artists who in 2017 had an outsized impact on artistic production and culture at large.

No me lo puedo creer.

US-Mexico Border

American and Mexican artists are working to turn the Mexico-U.S. border fence into an over a mile-long gorgeous mural.