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The '''Mexico–United States border''' ({{lang-es|frontera Estados Unidos–México}}) is an [[Border|international border]] separating [[Mexico]] and the [[United States]], extending from the [[Pacific Ocean]] in the west to the [[Gulf of Mexico]] in the east. The border traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from urban areas to deserts. The Mexico–U.S. border is the most frequently [[List of Mexico–United States border crossings|crossed]] border in the world with approximately 350 million documented crossings annually. [[Illegal immigration to the United States|Illegal crossing]] of the border to enter the United States has been a top issue in the States and is causing a [[Mexico–United States border crisis|border crisis]]. It is one of two international borders that the United States has, the other being the [[Canada–United States border]] to the north. It is the tenth-longest border between two countries in the world.
The total length of the continental border is {{convert|3,145|km|mi|abbr=off|sp=us}}. From the Gulf of Mexico, it follows the course of the [[Rio Grande|Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte)]] to the border crossing at [[Ciudad Juárez|Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua]], and [[El Paso, Texas]]. Westward from [[El Paso–Juárez]], it crosses vast tracts of the [[Chihuahuan Desert|Chihuahuan]] and [[Sonoran Desert|Sonoran]] deserts to the [[Colorado River Delta]] and [[San Diego–Tijuana]], before reaching the Pacific Ocean.<ref name="us-ibwc-about">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ibwc.gov/About_Us/about_us.html |title=
Four American states border Mexico: [[California]], [[Arizona]], [[New Mexico]] and [[Texas]]. One definition of [[Northern Mexico]] includes only the six Mexican states that border the U.S.: [[Baja California]], [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]], [[Coahuila]], [[Nuevo León]], [[Sonora]] and [[Tamaulipas]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_DDre5B1lLcC&pg=PA175|title=Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA|last1=Mize|first1=Ronald L.|last2=Swords|first2=Alicia C. S.|date=2010|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-0158-1|pages=175|language=en}}</ref>
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