La Frontera

Weaving above, below, and across the U.S.-Mexico border over the course of a year, a photographer captures the violence and trauma of a deadly drug war and those caught in its crossfire.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY LOUIE PALU | JANUARY 2, 2013

Looking through the U.S. border fence into San Ysidro, a small U.S. border community in San Diego County. These small openings in the fence are used by U.S. Border Patrol to monitor the Mexican side of the border.

 

Louie Palu is a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation.