Day 55 (D-6) Unfortunately, this too is Arizona

As you learned when we were in Monument Valley on Day 36 (D-25) of this blog:  A picture is worth a thousand words.
Nogales, Arizona, 246 km south of Phoenix
Young men walk along the Mexican side of the fence in a remote area of the Sonoran Desert, near the Tohono O'odham Reservation in Arizona in December 2010.


Border Patrol


The border fence is seen at sunset in Nogales, Arizona, in July 2018.

My best,
Jane



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