BORDER OF MEXICO AND U.S.

By: Hunter Simonson

About the Border

The border between the U.S. and Mexico stretches 1,969 miles long.

It also splits the Rio Grande in half down the middle of the river.

About the Border Continued The border runs from San Diego,

California to Brownsville, Texas. It is the most commonly passed

international border in the world. Around 350 million crossings every year.

History

People started to show up in the 16th century because the discovery of silver.

At first the land didn’t belong to either country because the population wasn’t very high.

Border Control

The border has the 2nd highest of both legal and illegal crossing of any border only behind the U.S. and Canada.

It is guarded by over 20 thousand border patrol agents.

Border Control Continued There are about half a million illegal

entries into the U.S. per year. The border patrol is located in the bigger

cities along the border.

Fun Facts

There are 42 border crossings. There was a fence dividing the two that

was 640 miles long but then was torn down because of costly reasons.

The Rio Grande makes up for over half of the border.

Around 11.8 million people live in the U.S.- Mexico border area.

Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_%E2%80%93_United_States_border#History

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/migrations/bord/intro.html

http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=407