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Border Fence
Date: 3/4/2009 Album ID: 704298
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Sgt. Tony Briscoe of the Texas National Guard repairs a portion of the fence which fronts the Rio Grande Friday, Aug. 3, 2007 in El Paso, Texas. National Guard soldiers are paired with Border Patrol agents to work on the welding team. The team makes welding repairs to the border fence to help stop immigrants from making illegal entry by going through holes in the fence. (AP Photo/Victor Calzada)
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Sgt. Tony Briscoe of the Texas National Guard welds a rod to the fence which fronts the Rio Grande to close a hole Friday, Aug. 3, 2007 in El Paso, Texas. Welding team members will use available fencing and other items to make patches with the goal of stopping or slowing intrusions. (AP Photo/El Paso Times, Victor Calzada)
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A Border Patrol vehicle drove past a portion of the border fence, Friday, Aug. 3, 2007, in El Paso, Texas.  The fence had been welded with bars, right, to prevent people from going through it. (AP Photo/Victor Calzada)
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Some areas of the border fence along West Paisano are in need of repair or replacement.
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A vew of the border fences between the Stanton Street bridge and the Paso Del Norte bridge in downtown El Paso Friday.
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The end of the 3.1 mile border fence being built on either side of Columbus, New Mexico.  Photo by Mark Lambie
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New Mexico National Guardsmen fill one of the over 17,000 posts along the border just west of Columbus, New Mexico Thursday.  Photo by Mark Lambie
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El Paso bishop Armando X. Ochoa, right, and Juarez bishop Renato talk through the border fence near Anapra. The mass commemorated aliens who had died crossing the border in celebration of Dia de los Muertos.  1103_a1_mass 4_aj Photo by Adriane Jaeckle
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Las Cruces bishop Ricardo Ramirez, El Paso bishop Armando X. Ochoa and Juarez bishop Renato Ascencio Leon celebrated a mass along the border fence near Anapra. The mass commemorated aliens who had died crossing the border in celebration of Dia de los Muertos.  1103_a1_mass 2_aj Photo by Adriane Jaeckle
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Juvenio Ayala prays along the border fence during the annual Dia de los Muertos Border Mass.  Ayala was born in Durango, Mexico, but is now a U.S. citizen.  1103_a1_mass 1_aj Photo by Adriane Jaeckle
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Bill Addington.right, sparked a response in Patrick Shea, supporter of the border fence, after Addington declared Thursday nights  forum at the Ambassador Ballroom undemocratic,
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07 AU 1979 - A man makes his way through the fence along the border between El Paso and Juarez. (Times file photo)
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03 JUL 1958 - INSPECT BORDER FENCE - Border Patrol Chief Gordon Pettingill (left), Mayor Raymond telles (cneter) and District Director Marcus T. Neelly ofthe U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service inspect the new, heavy-gauge wire fence around Cordova Island.Neelly said the fence, erected primarily through his efforts during several years, already is helping us a great deal in controlling illegal border crossers. (Times Staff Photo)
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20 JUN 1979 - Wlder Richard Russell secures one of the post of the new fence Tuesday along the U.S.-Mexico border near Hammett and the Rio Grande. The fence, when completed, will hang over the concrete embankments of the river as it runs through the El Paso area. Immigration authorities believe it will be a deterrent to illegal alien rossings. (Times staff photpo by David Kennedy)
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29 JUL 1958 - GOING UP - Marcus T. Neelly, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, extreme right, and Deputy Chief Border Patrol Inspector Richard Wischkamper watched workmen who are erecting the new fence on the border at the city dump. The high fence, designed to reduce smuggling and illegal border crossings, will be completed in about two weeks. (Times staff photo)
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27 SEP 1979 - A woman strolls on the Rio Grande levee Wednesday after walking around the end of the Tortilla Curtain just east of Hammett Street. The fence is almost completed and, although it is difficult to go through or over the barrier, it doesn't stop those who take the time to wlak around it. Construction of the new fence began during summer and created controversy between groups on both sides of the border. (Times staff photo by Lance Murray)
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11 AUG 1979 - Jaime Favela examines a section of newly installed border fence near Frances Street. Jaime says he frequently wlaks along the fnece with his Great Dane, Heiclif, and has never been bothered by illegal aliens or the Border Patrol. Workers have been installing the fencing to the already installed frame for a week or so. (Times Staff Photo by Luis Villalobos)
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John Spraul, right, manager of the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park in far East El Paso looked out along the West end of the park as a US Border Patrol vehicle passed along a border levee road Thursday.  A proposed 15 to 18-foot high border fence would be built between Sproul and the Border Patrol vehicle.
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