Frontera

The border between Mexico and The U.S. has always been a one-sided political debate: Keep illegal Mexican citizens out of this country at all costs. It's even more poignant an issue now, as the Bush administration calls for more and more technology to be thrown at the problem. Most recently, he called for a "Virtual" wall that would use sensors and cameras to detect illegal crossing and other goings-on.
The question, then, is what can design do to help the situation? There has already been a competition to devise a new border crossing at Anapra via the wonderful Mexican online journal Arquine. Now the New York Times (it's about time) asked 5 architects to propose their own ideas of The Fence.