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The border separating Mexico and the U.S. is the most frequently crossed international boundary in the world,<ref name="BGTG">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hknZxFWtWnQC&pg=PA75|title=Retirement Without Borders: How to Retire Abroad{{snd}}in Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, Costa Rica, Panama, and Other Sunny, Foreign Places|last=Golson|first=Barry|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|year=2008|isbn=978-0-7432-9701-1|location=New York, New York|page=75|author2=Thia Golson|access-date=March 9, 2011}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aHYt0RNSDfgC&q=most%20frequently%20crossed%20border%20guinness&pg=PA457|title=Guinness World Records 2009|last=Glenday|first=Craig|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc.|year=2009|isbn=978-0-553-59256-6|page=457|access-date=March 9, 2011}}</ref> with approximately 350 million legal crossings taking place annually.<ref name="BGTG" /><ref name="google.com">{{cite news |title=US, Mexico open first new border crossing in 10 years |location=Washington |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jHLM81sN-H02Sf1CANZvBoE9mUwA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228012612/https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jHLM81sN-H02Sf1CANZvBoE9mUwA |archive-date=February 28, 2014 |newspaper=[[Agence France-Presse|AFP]] |date=January 12, 2010 |access-date=December 3, 2012 |quote=The US–Mexico border is the busiest in the world, with approximately 350 million crossings per year. }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nmsu.edu/~bec/BEC/Readings/10.USMBHC-TheBorderAtAGlance.pdf |title=The United States–Mexico Border Region at a Glance |website=United States–Mexico Border Health Commission |publisher=New Mexico State University |access-date=December 3, 2012 |quote=In 2001, over 300 million two-way border crossings took place at the 43 POEs. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915105245/http://www.nmsu.edu/~bec/BEC/Readings/10.USMBHC-TheBorderAtAGlance.pdf |archive-date=September 15, 2012 }}</ref>
 
There are 48 U.S.–Mexico border crossings, with 330 ports of entry. At these points of entry, people trying to get into the U.S. are required to open their bags for inspection.<ref name="Hodge, Roger D. 2012">{{cite journal|last=Hodge|first= Roger D. |title=Borderworld: How the U.S. Is Reengineering Homeland Security|url=http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/how-us-reengineering-homeland-security-borders|journal=Popular Science |volume=280 |issue= 1|year= 2012|pages= 56–81}}</ref> Border crossings take place by roads, pedestrian walkways, railroads and ferries. From west to east, below is a list of the border city "twinnings"; cross-border municipalities connected by one or more legal border crossings.
 
[[File:Bridge of the Americas (El Paso–Ciudad Juárez), June 2016.jpg|thumb|right|Going into Mexico from El Paso, Texas, U.S.]]
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