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102 images Created 4 Nov 2008

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Documenting the U.S./Mexico Border began in 1994 when the Clinton Administration launched Operation Gatekeeper to shut down the US/Mexico border in San Diego. I've been assigned to shoot in border towns from Texas to Tijuana, as well as throughout the country, for TIME, NY Times Magazine, Newsweek, People, Der Spiegel, Focus, Washington Post and others.

The work has been published extensively and exhibited several times overseas. Fourteen images reside in the permanent collection at the California Museum of Photography. I continue to document immigration issues for editorial and non-profit clients..

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  • View from another world, a father and son peer through the international boundary into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico. <br />
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  • Migrants fleeing Central America and parts of Southern Mexico traveled nearly a month before arriving in Tijuana, Mexico where they were placed in shelters. The migrants planned to ask for asylum while presenting themselves to authorities at the US Port of Entry at San Ysidro, CA.
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  • Nora Ali, 18, an American whose family emigrated from Iraq, protested Trump's immigration policy during the Not My President demonstration against President Trump's immigration policies.
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  • Undocumented migrants flee back toward Mexico after being chased by the U.S. Border Patrol along the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California. <br />
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  • Pushing undocumented migrants into the desert and mountains has resulted in armed citizen patrols in small border towns like this one in eastern San Diego. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • The Holmgren family tends to fields and equipment on their ranch that borders Piedras Negras, Mexico. The family has seen an increase in drug and migrant smuggling through their ranch near Eagle Pass, Texas. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • The marker for the Boundary of the United States located at Friendship Park in Imperial Beach, CA. This is about 100 yards from where the border enters the Pacific Ocean.  Migrants gather here to view life on the US side of the border, talk with family, and at times to attempt entry.
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  • Migrants mostly from Honduras and Guatemala fleeing gang violence and death threats traveled nearly a month before arriving in Tijuana, Mexico where they planned to seek asylum at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Migrants must get their name on the list managed by another migrant and wait to be called. The wait can take months. Thousands of names were already on the list as thousands of more migrants have arrived in recent days.
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  • Undocumented immigrants are returned to Mexico after being detained in San Diego, California on January 20th, 2009. Forty seven migrants were apprehended during the morning hours of inauguration day and deported to Mexico with only their belongings in paper bags. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Migrants unable to cross the US Mexico border find respite in Casa del Migrante, a Catholic shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico.
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  • Migrants fleeing Central America and parts of Southern Mexico traveled nearly a month before arriving in Tijuana, Mexico where they were placed in shelters. The migrants planned to ask for asylum while presenting themselves to authorities at the US Port of Entry at San Ysidro, CA.
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  • Undocumented immigrants are returned to Mexico after being detained in San Diego, California on January 20th, 2009. Forty seven migrants were apprehended during the morning hours of inauguration day and deported to Mexico with only their belongings in paper bags. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A U.S. Border Patrol vehicle chases an undocumented immigrant who had just entered the United States illegally. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Bob Maupin, a rancher along the U.S. Mexico border in Campo, California, patrols his property for undocumented migrants on Barack Obama's inauguration day, January 20, 2009. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Immigrant rights supporters march in Los Angeles as part of May Day celebration calling for immigration reform and a path to citizenship for undocumented migrants. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • A May Day rally in Los Angeles took on a political tone with demonstrators opposed to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taking to the streets in opposition to his anti-immigrant remarks regarding Mexicans. Please contact me directly with licensing request.
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  • An immigrant kisses the American flag as he watches immigrant rights supporters march in Los Angeles as part of May Day celebration. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants are caught by United States Border patrol agents in San Diego, California. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A migrant worker bathes in the hills of San Diego, California.  PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Many of Los Angeles's undocumented immigrants live in parts of East LA where they have extended family and support that goes back generations. Photographed for Der Spiegel.
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  • Undocumented migrants gather along the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Migrants find a temporary respite at Casa del Migrante in Tijuana from the difficulties crossing the U.S./Mexico border. Many of the migrants suffer psychological trauma from failed crossings and from being away from their families, said Father Fanzolato who headed the Catholic shelter. The shelter provides one hot meal per day, prayer services and a place to sleep before the migrants continue north into California. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Outside a shelter for migrants stranded in Tijuana, Mexico, due to difficult border crossings into the United States, a man runs for a day laborer truck in hopes of making  money to pay for a professional smuggler. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A migrant on his way to America steps into the church at Casa del Migrante, a Catholic shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, before heading to try to cross the border into California. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented migrants gather along the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California in early morning hours to cross into the U.S. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented migrants gather along the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. <br />
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  • A smuggler is arrested in California, after four people were found in the trunk of her car on a road used to bypass a checkpoint installed during operation Gatekeeper. A 1997 study by the University of Houston attributed rise in undocumented migrant deaths to Operation Gatekeeper. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Bob Maupin (r) patrols his ranch, at dusk in eastern San Diego, for undocumented immigrants. Maupin formed his own patrol to deal with the onslaught of undocumented immigrants entering the area to avoid Operation Gatekeeper. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Armed citizens patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California in hopes of stopping the undocumented migrants from crossing their property into the United States. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • A pair of heavily armed US citizens dressed in camouflage and carrying assault rifles captured a group of suspected undocumented migrants after they crossed into the U.S. through a border ranch in eastern San Diego, CA town of Campo. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A woman hanged a dead coyote along a much used route as a message to smugglers (a.k.a. "coyotes"). Shockey lives in a small eastern San Diego town overrun by undocumented immigrants since Operation Gatekeeper pushed them into the region. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A pair of US citizens patrolling the border search a group of undocumented migrants at gunpoint after catching them entering the United States through eastern San Diego. The vigilantes started their patrol after Operation Gatekeeper pushed the migrants into the region. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented migrants wait in a federal holding cell in Yuma, Arizona to be deported after being picked up in the desert. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Armed citizen patrol along the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California in an effort to stop undocumented migrants from entering the U.S. from Mexico. Here, a vigilante detains a couple migrants after they were stopped. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Bud Natus discovers a dead puppy carefully placed in the middle of a ranch road that parallels the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas. Natus believes it to be a warning from the Mexican smugglers after he was seen taking pictures of them. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A U.S. Border Patrol employee welds a portion of the fence separating Tijuana, Mexico from San Diego, California after it was cut by smugglers the previous night. The employee said he repairs at least five sections of the fence daily. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • Migrants:..Every year hundreds of migrants die attempting to cross into the United States illegally, the majority from heat stroke and drownings. Over a hundred migrants are buried at a nondescript cemetery located in a undisclosed dirt section of a cemetery in Holtville, Ca near the major crossing point of El Centro, Ca. Most of the bodies were never identified. John Hunter spends weekends shuttling water into remote border regions and often stops by the cemetery to pay respect. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • The marker for the Boundary of the United States located at Friendship Park in Imperial Beach, CA. This is about 100 yards from where the border enters the Pacific Ocean.  Migrants gather here to view life on the US side of the border, talk with family, and at times to attempt entry.
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  • A large group of undocumented immigrants are caught near the US/Mexico border and taken to a detention facility in California. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented migrants gather along the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Bob Maupin, a border rancher along the U.S. Mexico border in Campo, California, repairs fence cut by smugglers moving undocumented immigrants into the country through his property on January 20, 2009. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A migrant offers his breakfast to another outside the Casa Del Migrante shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, a temporary home for stranded and destitute migrants attempting to cross the border or for those recently deported. Migrants are forced out of the shelter at dawn to look for work. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Apartment complex where migrant workers live is dilapadated and infested. This family can't sleep in this room because of the extensive water damage and rot. Several of the girls toys lay on the cardboard. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A migrant caught entering the country near Yuma, Arizona is held behind doors in a federal detention center before being loaded on a bus and driven back to the border. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants on the Tijuana Levy prepare for sundown to make a run for San Diego. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants enter California by running into traffic on I-5 to avoid Border Patrol. The result of Operation Gatekeeper is that smugglers and their human cargo are forced to find much more dangerous routes for entry into the United States. Many head east into the mountains while others take the "Bonzai Run" head on into I-5 traffic through the Port of Entry. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A large group of undocumented immigrants are caught near the US/Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • US Border Patrol work the Yuma, Arizona border with Mexico on lookout for undocumented immigrants. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Mark Allen White, Supervisory Marine Interdiction Agent with Customs and Border Protection, .San Diego Air & Marine Branch, patrols the waters near the US/Mexico border for undocumented immigrants in the early morning hours. The unit is also on patrol for gun smugglers hauling firearms into Mexico which is helping to fuel the Narco wars raging in Mexico. For more images, search for "immigration by air and sea". Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Adam Polak, Customs and Border Protection agent with the Air and Marine division, patrols the shoreline along the U.S/Mexico border in San Diego, California. For more images, search for "immigration by air and sea". Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Ed Vodrazka, 50, feels he'll be hearing a call come in over the radio any day now announcing a capsized boat with over twenty undocumented migrants in the heavy surf off of Torrey Pines State Beach. As a lieutenant lifeguard at Torrey Pines State Beach , Vodrazka would be the first to respond. He has seen four boats wash ashore and keeps a vigilant watch for others. For more images, search for "immigration by air and sea". Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A Customs and Border Protection boat patrols the Pacific Ocean before dawn near the US/Mexico border for undocumented immigrants as well as gun smugglers attempting to bring guns into Mexico. For more images, search for "immigration by air and sea". Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented migrants, including this alleged gang member, line up along the border fence for deportation back to Mexico after being caught entering the country illegally. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants are returned to Mexico after being detained in San Diego, California on January 20th, 2009. Forty seven migrants were apprehended during the morning hours of inauguration day and deported to Mexico with only their belongings in paper bags. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Migrants gather to wash their clothes in reclaimed water in the hills of northern San Diego, California where many make their homes amid the bushes and scrub brush. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • The immigration war took it's toll when this boy along with hundreds of others were forced out of a migrant camp they had built in a small San Diego, California, canyon near the fields they tended. The city bulldozed the camp. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • One migrant cuts the hair of another at a migrant camp in the hills of northern San Diego, California where many live so they can save money and be close to the fields they work in. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants gather at Casa del Migrante in Tijuana, Mexico before attempting to head north across the US/Mexico border. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A migrant worker's daughter waits for her father to return from a nearby field in San Diego County, California. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Muddy footprints across a highway show the path undocumented migrants took entering the country from Agua Prieta, Mexico into Douglas, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Lorna House has had several encounters with illegal migrants crossing her border property in remote San Diego County, California. She lives alone and won't leave home without a gun. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Roger Barnett regularly patrolled his property along the US/Mexico border while carrying an assault rifle and pistol. Roger would track suspected undocumented immigrants crossing his property into America. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Chris Simcox helped found the Minutemen, a group of anti illegal immigration advocates who spend time along the U.S.-Mexico border patrolling for undocumented migrants. Simcox helped launch the organization by issuing a "Call to Arms" in the local Tombstone Tumbleweed publication he owned in Tombstone, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A group of vigilantes debriefs after a night in the desert trying to find undocumented migrants crossing the border. Led by Chris Simcox, the group stops migrants believed to have crossed illegally into the US and then calls the Border Patrol. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Members of the San Diego Minutemen, an anti illegal immigration group,  protest adjacent to a gathering spot for day laborers. The SDMM harass the latino day laborers in hopes of driving them away from the area. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Members of a loose knit group of volunteers patrol near the U.S.-Mexico border for undocumented migrants crossing into the United States through the desert of Arizona. The group is affiliated with Chris Simcox who helped form the Minute Men. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Chris Simcox, center, with his local, volunteer vigilante patrol near Tombstone, AZ. The group patrols for undocumented migrants crossing the border into the US. Chris Simcox took over the local paper, Tombstone Tumbleweed, in Tombstone, Arizona and proceeded to issue a "Call to Arms" for local residents to form a armed patrol of the nearby US/Mexico border. Simcox formed the vigilante patrol and regularly patrols and captures Mexican nationals crossing the desert into Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants arrested by US Border Patrol in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A smuggler of undocumented immigrants is arrested in Eagle Pass, Texas. Small border towns like Eagle Pass, lacking the federal funds of larger cities are under siege by illegal immigrants trafficking drugs into the United States. " I'm uneasy myself and I'm trained for this. They're haulin ' drugs just down from my house, " the Eagle Pass Chief of Police told the New York Times. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Steve Eichler, executive director of the Minute Men, addresses supporters at a Minute Men summit in Las Vegas, Nevada. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants pray at a church service at Casa del Migrante in Tijuana, Mexico before attempting to head north across the US/Mexico border. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST.
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  • This fence divides the city of Tijuana from San Diego and is a popular gathering spot for undocumented migrants attempting a quick entry into the US. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Members of the federal Immigration Response Team work to inspect vehicles before they cross into the United States at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego, California. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A group of undocumented migrants are detained after crossing the Rio Grande River into Eagle Pass, Texas. The river is the international boundary between Piedras Negras, MX and Eagle Pass and is easily crossed, making the small Texas town a hot-spot for illegal crossings. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A member of the Escondido brigade of the San Diego Minute Man (SDMM) protests in San Diego, CA adjacent to a area that day laborers gather to look for work. The SDMM are trying hard to force migrants, who they believe to be undocumented, off the streets. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A special task force was created in Los Angeles to track down criminal undocumented immigrants. Agents get a briefing, complete with picture, of their suspect. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Suspects who allegedly robbed a migrant who was waiting to cross the border into the U.S., wait to be transported by Grupo Beta, the Mexican police force who oversees migrant safety. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Participants in the Minute Man summit in Las Vegas, Nevada in July, 2006 Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Participants in the Minute Man summit in Las Vegas, Nevada in July, 2006 Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Steve Eichler, Executive Director of the Minuteman Project, practices his speech at the anti illegal immigration second annual Unite to Fight Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 28, 2006. The summit drew Minutemen and others who want to stop illegal immigration. (Photo by Todd Bigelow/Aurora) Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Anti illegal immigration activists gather at the second annual Unite to Fight Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 27, 2006 to listen to a variety of speakers and learn how to form citizen patrols. The gathering drew Minutemen and others who want to stop illegal immigration. (Photo by Todd Bigelow/Aurora) Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A young man sits in the back of his father's truck as they work their way to their crops near the border in Del Rio, Texas. An increase in migrant smugglers using the area resulted in the father not wanting to let his son out of sight. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Los Angeles on May 1, 2010 to protest against the new Arizona law, SB 1070, that created strict immigration laws against the undocumented. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A woman watches immigrant rights supporters march in Los Angeles as part of May Day celebration calling for immigration reform and a path to citizenship for undocumented migrants. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented migrants wait in a federal holding cell in Yuma, Arizona to be deported after being picked up in the desert. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A man is sworn in as a United States citizen at a Los Angeles, California citizenship ceremony. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Twenty-two year old migrant Carmel Sanchez prays at Casa Del Migrante shelter in Tijuana, Mexico. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Adam Polak, Customs and Border Protection agent with the Air and Marine division, patrols the shoreline along the U.S/Mexico border in San Diego, California. For more images, search for "immigration by air and sea". Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Migrants:.Every year hundreds of migrants die attempting to cross into the United States illegally, the majority from heat stroke and drownings. John Hunter, a self-described humanitarian, spends many weekends with other volunteers placing water stations in remote border regions so migrants don't die of dehydration or heat stroke. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Every year hundreds of migrants die attempting to cross into the United States illegally, the majority from heat stroke and drownings. John Hunter, a self-described humanitarian, spends many weekends with other volunteers placing water stations in remote border regions so migrants don't die of dehydration or heat stroke. The giant barrels are filled with water. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Migrants are detained in the Arizona desert on just south of Tombstone by a group of citizens who have taken it upon themselves to police the border. Led by Chris Simcox, the group stops migrants believed to have crossed illegally into the US and then calls the Border Patrol. (Photo by Todd Bigelow/Aurora) Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A US Border Patrol agent scans the Rio Grande River, a popular crossing point for undocumented immigrants entering Eagle Pass, Texas. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants in the federal detention center in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • The Hoelscher family working a ranch along the US/Mexico border where smuggling and violence was escalating. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Migrants:.Every year hundreds of migrants die attempting to cross into the United States illegally, the majority from heat stroke and drownings. Over a hundred migrants are buried at a nondescript cemetery located in a undisclosed dirt section of a cemetery in Holtville, Ca near the major crossing point of El Centro, Ca. Most of the bodies were never identified. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A undocumented migrant just inside the US/Mexico border on the Tijuana Levy, waits for sundown before making a run for the US. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • United States Border Patrol agents speak with a man and his son through the border fence at Friendship Park in San Diego, CA.
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  • The marker for the Boundary of the United States located at Friendship Park in Imperial Beach, CA. This is about 100 yards from where the border enters the Pacific Ocean.  Migrants gather here to view life on the US side of the border, talk with family, and at times to attempt entry.
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  • Migrants climb the US Mexico border fence to view life on the US side of the border.
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  • Residents and neighbors of Julian in Eastern San Diego gather for a community meeting called to discuss the massive increase of undocumented immigrants coming through their properties after the Clinton Administration instituted Operation Gatekeeper about 6o miles west of their town.
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