Brownsville, TX - OCTOBER 16, 2020: Old tires at the U.S.-Mexico border fence. Border agents hitch old tires to the backs of their patrol units and drag them across dirt roads paralleling the border in order to clear footprints to determine a timeline of crossings.
Brownsville, TX - OCTOBER 16, 2020: The Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border. Self-portrait with U.S. Air Force uniform. The approximate location where my mother and I crossed in 1988.
Brownsville, TX - OCTOBER 16, 2020: This part of the U.S.-Mexico border fence is located less than a mile away from the Rio Grande. At a distance, a Border Patrol truck.