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When I lived in Arizona and Texas for a total of seven years, I managed to cross the border at most points that were then open, but I do not think I ever made it to San Luis. From this story, however, it sounds very much like the places I did know well -- Nogales/Nogales, Hidalgo/Reynosa, and Brownsville/Matamoros.
This story focuses on a binational community just south of Yuma -- one of the hottest and driest places to be found in North America. When I lived in
Tucson, people would warn me against going to this area, because it was dry! The green lands shown in the satellite image just west of town are irrigated by the canal that is shown entering from the north.
As with most cities on the border, the city on the Mexico side is close to ten times larger than its U.S. partner.
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