The Mexico – United States barrier – also known in the United States as the border fence, rotted fence or border wall – is actually several separation barriers designed to prevent illegal movement across the Mexico – United States border.

A woman overcome by emotion after an aftershock hit the area, is carried by a relative to the general hospital in Port-de-Paix, Haiti, Sunday, October 7, 2018. A magnitude 5.2 aftershock struck Haiti on Sunday, even as survivors of the previous day's temblor were sifting through the rubble of their cinderblock homes. The death toll stood at 12, with fears it could rise. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)

Voodoo believers carry dead goats during a ceremony of Fet Gede in a Peristil, a voodoo temple, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 2, 2016. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)

A woman talks to a man as two children play inside a wrecked car at a camp for displaced people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 6, 2016. (Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)

A porter runs behind a taxi carrying clients to Colombia's border with Venezuela in hopes of getting hired by the passengers to help carry their belongings across the border, which Venezuela partially closed seven years prior, in Cucuta, Colombia, early Monday, August 8, 2022. Colombia’s incoming foreign minister and his Venezuelan counterpart announced in late July that the border will gradually reopen after the two nations restore diplomatic ties. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)

A Palestinian girl wearing a protective face mask looks on as she sits in a box on the back of a bicycle amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Gaza City on September 27, 2020. (Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

Members of contemporary circus group perform inside the subway train, amid the energy crisis in Prague, Czech Republic on March 2, 2023. (Photo by David W. Cerny/Reuters)

Miss France Iris Mittenaere (R) and Miss Haiti Raquel Pelissier hold hands before Mittenaere is announced winner of the 65th Miss Universe beauty pageant at the Mall of Asia Arena, in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines January 30, 2017. (Photo by Erik De Castro/Reuters)