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Sweet Border: Illegal and Bad

Sweet Bor­der, Anapra, NM/Colonia Anapra, Juarez Chihuahua-Feb. 2009 Life goes on. Mex­ico is a great pueblo. So is El Paso and south­ern New Mex­ico. One reads the news­pa­pers and one thinks the world has gone insane. Par­tic­u­larly here, on the border.

None Illegal

Bor­der fence at Anapra, NM/Looking into Juarez-02/21/09 The bor­der fence is a stinkin’ dirty bad joke. Do these kids look like ter­ror­ists or nar­co­traf­i­cantes or, even, the dreaded low wage worker that every Amer­i­can com­pany has winked at, invited, used and exploited for decades?

Jumping over El Segundo

Jump­ing over El Segundo, El Paso-2009

Alameda Street Showboat: Blast From The Past

Alameda Street Show­boat, El Paso-1987 Alameda Street is about (what’s this “about,” stuff?) to get stomped. Progress. New Hos­pi­tal and Med­ical School down the Street. Progress. ‘ta bien, really. Time to move on. One thing about Urban Renewal and Plans: we have had the best of it and now you can have the rest. The […]

La Migra Mirando

Bor­der fence/Rude wall. El Paso-2009