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This is a list of all counties and municipalities (municipios in Spanish) that are directly on the Mexico–United States border. A total of 37 municipalities and 23 counties, spread across 6 Mexican and 4 American states, are located on the border. All entities are listed geographically from west to east.
United States Port of Entry United States Road/Highway City and State Mexican Port of Entry Mexican Road/Highway City and State Status Otay Mesa East: SR 11 Toll: East Otay Mesa, California: Mesa de Otay II: Tijuana, Baja California: This is expected to be the first toll-based border crossing on the US-Mexico border. It is planned to open in ...
Following the establishment of the current border, several towns sprang up along this boundary, and many of the Mexican citizens were given free land in the northern regions of Mexico in exchange for returning and repopulating the area.
The Matamoros–Brownsville area is connected by four international bridges. [5] In addition, this transnational conurbation area has a population of 1,136,995, [6] making it the fourth-largest metropolitan area on the Mexico-U.S. border. [7] The area of Matamoros–Brownsville lies among the top-10 fastest-growing urban areas in the United ...
San Diego–Tijuana is an urban agglomeration across the Mexico–United States border. A transborder agglomeration is an urban agglomeration or conurbation that extends into multiple sovereign states and/or dependent territories. It includes city-states that agglomerate with their neighbouring countries.
Temporary structures like the one in Juárez are being prepared in nine Mexico cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. They are part of the President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo administration's "Mexico ...
Border Patrol vehicle along a portion of the Mexico-United States border wall. After the September 11 attacks, the Customs Border Security Act of 2001 established United States Border Patrol interior checkpoints with some situated at the north end of the Rio Grande Valley. This allows for a second line of defense in the ever increasing subtlety ...
The Mexican border cities of Tijuana, Mexicali, Rosarito and Ensenada were hit by gang violence that included vehicles being set ablaze and road blockades.