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

A man coming from Mexico and holding a U.S. passport lines up at a port of entry into the United States in Laredo, Texas under the watchful eye of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent and a dog used to sniff out illegal narcotics.

 

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