A day in Mexicali

Mexicali, Mexico - April 20, 2024: One day in Mexicali, the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California located on the U.S. - Mexico border; on the other side of the border wall is the small town of Calexico, California.

Waiting at the border crossing station

A small backpack caught in barbed wire

A man cleans the windshield of a car waiting in line to cross the border into the U.S.

Vehicles wait in line to cross the border into the U.S.; on the walkway above, people wait outside a border crossing station

An elderly man sits in front of a gentleman’s club across the street from the border wall

Chinesca Casino in the La Chinesca neighborhood of Mexicali

A family walks through the La Chinesca neighborhood with their luggage

The remains of an abandoned airplane on the side of Highway 5 in Mexicali

A cemetery just next to the abandoned airplane

Graffiti on a wall across the street from the U.S. - Mexico border reads “Gringo Go Home”

A woman wears a head covering printed with the American flag

The border wall looking east

A U.S. Border Patrol officer in his car on the other side of the border

A vendor’s collection of items for sale along the border wall

A man proselytizes along the border wall

A man proselytizing along the border wall

A vendor sells his merchandise along the border wall

Two men jump over the border into the U.S. with rope ladders

A woman and a young child watch as two men jump over the border on rope ladders

A man’s hands are seen holding onto the border wall after climbing over the wall into the U.S.

Two young men sitting beside the line of vehicles waiting to cross the border into the U.S.

A woman sells fake flowers at the border crossing station

A band plays music for the vehicles in line at the border crossing station

A man sings for the passengers of the vehicles waiting in line at the border crossing station