Summary
Two hundred years ago crossing the border into Mexico from the United States or Central America was a simple matter. Then, as now, many families - and tribal people such as the Tohono O'odham made regular trips to see brothers and sisters who lived on the other side of what was a barely defined and almost entirely invisible 'frontera'.
So used to the journey were Mexicans that many ignored formalities - it was only a few years since the US had annexed a swathe of California and Arizona and they felt they had a right to be on what was originally Mexican territory.See the full content of this document
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Mexicans Risk Life and Limb to Escape Grinding Poverty
But today much of the country's 2000-mile long northern border is fortified or patrolled - at least on the US side - by a combination of officials and private citizens one of whom claims to have rounded up more than 2000 ille...
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