The fence to the sky: the 30′ high fence between Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, AZ.
Artwork on the Mexican side of the fence between Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, AZ. You can see thru the fence to the houses and the car on the US side of the border. The distance between the I-beams is enough for your arm to be in the US while your body is in Mexico. The mural is titled “Paseo de Humanidad” (Parade of Humanity) is by artists Alberto Morackis, Alfred Quiróz and Guadalupe Serrano.
Migrants at Kino Border Initiative Kitchen, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico
Migrant at Kino Border Initiative Kitchen, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.
Not far beyond the cemetery is a Mexican government border station. At the Red Cross trailer migrants can get medical help.
Sometimes migrants sleep in the cemetery since no one bothers them there.
A map published by Humane Borders of the distance between Nogales and Tucson. The red dots indicate where people have died. The concentric circles show how many days walk.
Desert landscape. Even walking a short distance to take this photograph, Janet got a few thorns in her shoes and feet.
Operation Streamline is a program prosecutes migrants who cross illegally with a criminal offense rather than a civil one. The court room was full of brown people, mostly men, a few women. They were called in groups of 10. Their hands and feet were shackled. They stood in a line with their lawyers behind them. Their names were read and were asked a series of questions. One after the other they answered down the line.
Catholic Workers house. They feed the hungry without asking questions or for papers.
It is important to consider the intertwined relationships between migrants, refugees & homelessness. Jon McLane, one of the founders of Safe Park Dream Center, standing at the door of his cabin.
Dreamer, Josue Saldivar came to Tucson from Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico when he was 8 years old. He didn’t realize he was in the US illegally until he was a senior in high school and started to apply for scholarships to go to college. “Before that I thought I could accomplish what anyone else could,” he said.
Caroline Felicity Antone, Ophelia Rivas, Ray in front of Ofelia’s garden on the O’Odham Reservation. Her’s is the last house before the border.
The US/Mexican border on the O’Odham Reservation.
Most Of Us Are Immigrants, Sara D. Roosevelt Park, NYC; 8 feet x 50 feet x 18 feet; steeI, 1997.
Most of Us Are Immigrants- detail
Janet initiated a research trip to Tucson when immigration and the children were in the news. She just couldn’t stand it. Predictably, it has fallen out of the press. She had been thinking about immigration for a long time. Janet made a major public sculpture called “Most of US Are Immigrants” in the late 90’s. Then there is the issue of immigration for Mali and West Africa to Europe. So Janet was familiar with it the perspective of the departure country. But here she is in the destination country, another perspective. She helped a couple of Malians in immigration jail in the US. And of course there is the issue of Jews, intellectuals, artists fleeing Europe during WWII.
US Dept. of Arts & Culture Report: TO THE BORDER, With the Tucson Field Office
Constantino Morales Warned He Could Be Killed If He Was Deported. Then He Was.
