Sunrise on Tecate Peak
The border wall snakes up to the top of Tecate Peak.
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Friendship Park
Fifteen years of waiting: family meets at Friendship Park
This couple travelled from La Paz, Baja California Sur to visit with their children and grandchildren who now live in Chula Vista and Tijuana. The grandparents haven’t seen their Chula Vista family in 15 years. Grandson Jack, who lives with his dad and uncle in Tijuana, clowns around at the […]
Migrant Stories
Life in the borderlands: families separated by paperwork and a wall
For fourteen years, Claudia Medrano and Yovanic Quiñones have lived the back and forth life of the frontera. In 2000, they moved to San Diego with their kids, two children born in Mexico. Then another child was born in San Diego, and now the couple is back in Tijuana. But […]
Border Wall
New SENTRI lane route in Tijuana: not bad at all
On March 1 2014, Tijuana municipal authorities began rerouting SENTRI lane traffic through the former Ready Lane along Avenida Padre Kino. For the first week, frustrated drivers jammed city streets, making illegal U-turns and running the red light at Ocampo and Segunda trying to figure out how to get to […]
Border Wall
More annoyances at the San Ysidro border crossing
I’ve got my SENTRI pass. So why am I sitting for an hour in the Ready Lane now? And why is the SENTRI lane completely abandoned? Just when we thought the agonizing 3-hour border waits might come to an end, Tijuana municipal authorities have intervened, in spite of good intentions, […]
Border Art / Border Wall
A Future Memorial for NAFTA
Happy 20th anniversary, NAFTA. This year, we ring in the new year with a reminder of the trade agreement that has rocked the lives of millions in the US, Mexico and Canada. A group of artists commemorated this day with an installation at the San Diego-Tijuana border where the ugly […]
Border Wall
Vistas del paso: historia de la imagen del muro fronterizo
En la Universidad IBEROAMERICANA, Tijuana, el 24 de octubre a las 9:00-11:00 am, en el Audiotorio Loyola, Jill Marie Holslin, fotógrafa y escritora norteamericana, va a presentar una plática sobre sus fotografías del muro fronterizo. Desde la fundación de la frontera oficial entre México y los Estados Unidos por El […]
Border Art / Border Wall
Rastros: fotografías de Jill Marie Holslin
El 13 de septiembre inauguró la exposición Rastros: fotografías del muro fronterizo por Jill Marie Holslin en el Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Tecate. Las expo dura un mes, hasta 13 de octubre. Quiero agradecer a Pilar Silva, directora de la galería, por invitarme a exponer mis fotos allá. […]
Border Wall
The high cost of border militarization
Senator John McCain recently praised the senate’s immigration bill for enabling the U.S. to create “the most militarized border since the Berlin Wall.” It is amazing to me how that symbol of oppression has been rebranded in just a few short decades. In the summer of 2008, the Department of […]
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Problems to come as immigration bill passes today in the U.S. Senate
The U.S. Senate passed a sweeping immigration bill today, after weeks of negotiation over amendments designed to appeal to the most recalcitrant anti-immigration legislators. The Democratic controlled Senate passed the bill by a vote of 68-32, but not before adding provisions for a massive buildup of border security. The “border […]