“The U.S.-Mexican border is… an open wound, where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds…Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them.” — Gloria Anzaldúa, “Borderlands/La Frontera”

More than 20 years later, Gloria Anzaldúa’s words still ring true. The border remains an open wound because of the hundreds who lose their lives there each year, and the many thousands whose lives are devastated by the immigration detention and deportation machine. The border is the place of passage for undocumented immigrants and asylum-seekers who are criminalized for their existence. And it’s where volunteers like Scott Warren of No More Deaths are arrested and charged with crimes for offering life-saving aid to those in distress, while Border Patrol happily cooperates with vigilante militias holding migrants at gunpoint.
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