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Border Art Installation Sends Message about Migrant Deaths

By AAN Staff
may 13, 2004  11:08 pm
A gigantic metal wall dissects Nogales, a city in Arizona and the state of Sonora, Mexico. On the Mexican side, huge figures press up against the wall. One figure depicts a green-skinned Border Patrol agent chasing some migrants with a big stick, another a migrant returning home to Mexico with an American washing machine loaded onto his back. Other representations warn of the dangers in the desert: the saguaros growing out of a cluster of skulls, the fiery desert curling like a rattler underfoot, Mexicans carrying home the body of a dead compañero in a shroud. Margaret Regan reports on this controversial art and the message its creators hope to spread.
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