At the Arizona-Mexico border, residents are fed up: ‘The politicians are creating the mayhem’

The border fence between the US and Mexico in Nogales, Arizona, on 24 June 2024. Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

A few hundred feet from the US-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, Laura Aldana chuckled at the suggestion – made by both leading presidential candidates – that the region had fallen into chaos.

“Where?” she asked rhetorically. She gestured toward the street outside the downtown formalwear boutique where she works. “There’s almost too little to do here.”