#border Timeline

16d

"According to those guidelines, applicants are required to make their profiles public, and lack of an online social media history could be seen as a negative factor that could count against them in the application process."

Translation: if you are one of those people who say has a #Facebook account you use to read posts but you never post anything yourself, then you had better stay away from the US.

#socialmedia
#border
#travel
#trump

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/travel/social-media-esta-proposal-world-travel

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1y

While I've posted most of these over the last few weeks, I've started a gallery on my site for the Muro Loco / Wall Crazy series.
https://mikaljakubal.com/galleries/

Still a work in progress. I need to add more shots, caption all of them, write an intro. I'd like to find a place to exhibit them.

Edit to add that I'm still adjusting the gallery in mobile view. The captions override the images too much. Looks better on a big screen. I'm working on it.

#Border #immigration #BorderWall #AsylumSeekers #Art #photography #LandscapePhotography #MuroLoco

An abstract "arty" shot of the top of the U.S.-Mexico border fence. It appears as a series of pointy, rusty metal plates, like some sort of metallic dragon's-back plates atop vertical corrugations formed by telephoto compression of the 30' tall posts that make up the fence. The border fence road can be seen "above" the fence, though it's really an artifact of the telephoto lens and the angle of view. The road surface appears as black and white corduroy stripes: shadows from the low sun shining through the fence.

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2y

New blog post about repairing the U.S.-Mexico border fence. Text is mostly Robert Frosts famous poem by the same title.

https://www.mikaljakubal.com/mending-wall/

Yesterday morning I lucked onto a Border Patrol repair crew welding up cuts in the border fence. This crew does 5-10 quick fixes/day, then a contractor comes back and does more "permanent" fixes. If a fix is too good, the human smugglers who cut the fence will just cut the bollard next to it.

#BorderWall #Asylum #Border #Immigration #BorderPatrol #RobertFrost #SomethingThereIsThatDoesNotLoveAWall #SorryNotSorry

Close-up of a welder in a welding helmet and thick leather welding jacket attaching a piece of steel to the US – Mexico border fence. Little red sparks are flying everywhere and the welder's work and face are illuminated by the bright white of the arc.

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2y

New photojournal story about the border and asylum seekers. This one from my day there December 23rd when another photographer and I timed it right to see a "coyote" bring a large group of people through the U.S.-Mexico border fence.

https://www.mikaljakubal.com/the-portal/

#Border #Migrant #Immigration #Asylum #BorderWall

The U.S.-Mexico border fence, built of rows of 30' tall, 6" x 6" square steel tubing set into concrete 4" apart. The posts are out of focus, but the scenery behind them is sharp. A man wearing dark clothing and a neck gaiter to hide his face leads a group of people through the bushes toward the fence. He is holding a radio.

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