There are more than 650 miles of the existing fence, wall and vehicle barriers along the nearly 2,000-mile US-Mexico border. A segment of new fencing is being erected by the U.S. government outside El Paso, Texas, just west of the New Mexico state line. Residents on the Mexico side estimate 15 to 20 panels go up daily.

The AP has sent the team of reporter Christopher Sherman and photographer Rodrigo Abd on a nearly two-week journey along the entire length of the US-Mexico border, to bring us fresh voices and images from both sides of these vast and varied borderlands and see what is happening on the ground.

For day 8 of Tales from the border, photos of the existing border fence by AP photographer Rodrigo Abd.

Rohan Ayala stands next to his father outside their home, meters from the fence marking the U.S.-Mexico border in Juarez Valley, Mexico, Wednesday, March 29, 201, across the border from the outskirts of El Paso, Texas. A segment of new fencing is being erected by the U.S. government outside El Paso, Texas, just west of the New Mexico state line. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Clothes lay abandoned near a newly erected fence at the U.S.-Mexico border in the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, across from Sunland Park, New Mexico. Residents of Anapra, a neighborhood anchored to the dunes, have fought to get running water, electricity and some paved streets in recent years. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A woman stands outside her home located next to the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico, the gray, metal gate behind her, in the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, across the border from Sunland Park, New Mexico. This week, Mexican residents like her are losing their view toward the U.S. as each hour a crew welds into place two more segments of steel border fence. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Children play a coin toss game in the sand as a train passes behind the fence marking the U.S.-Mexico border, in the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, across the border from Sunland Park, New Mexico. There are more than 650 miles of fence, wall and vehicle barriers along the nearly 2,000-mile border. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A worker welds a new fence between the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Sunland Park, New Mexico, Thursday, March 30, 2017. The top three feet or so of the fence, which was planned and started before President Donald Trump's election, are a solid panel of oxidized steel. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A boy walks away from the municipal garbage dump where he threw away the casing of an unusable TV, in the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, March 30, 2017, across the border from Sunland Park, New Mexico. The trash can reads in Spanish "Christ loves you." (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Claudia Sanchez holds a broom outside her shack home in the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, across the border from Sunland Park, New Mexico. Homes in this area are made of concrete block, wooden pallets, and any sort of recovered material that can withstand the wind and hold back the blowing sand of the dunes. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A farm located adjacent to the fence at the US-Mexico border in the Juarez valley, Mexico, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, across from the outskirts of El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A man burns trash near the border fence in the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Wednesday, March 29, 2017, across the border from Sunland Park, New Mexico. Residents of Anapra, a neighborhood anchored to the dunes, have fought to get running water, electricity and some paved streets in recent years. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Workers use a crane to lift a segment of a new fence into place on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico, where Sunland Park, New Mexico, meets the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, March 30, 2017. Residents on the Mexico side estimate 15 to 20 panels go up daily. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A youth looks at a new, taller fence being built along U.S.-Mexico border, replacing the shorter, gray metal fence in front of it, in the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, across the border from Sunland Park, New Mexico. Construction of a new wall is likely to happen in a place like the desert west of here where the government already controls the land and there isn't already an effective obstacle. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Children play on two fences marking the U.S.-Mexico border, in the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, across the border form Sunland Park, New Mexico. In Mexico, people have lived and worked in the existing fence's shadow for years. That experience has made them dispassionate toward talk of new construction of a larger wall. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A fence marks the border between Mexico and the U.S. in the Juarez Valley, Mexico, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, across the border from the outskirts of El Paso, Texas. This border fence was planned and started before President Donald Trump's election. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Text by Christopher Sherman & photos by Rodrigo Abd

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