The Wall

The ‘Ambos Nogales’ divided by Trump’s wall

All StoriesAmanda Oien04/27/20170

Saturdays and Sundays bring families to the steel beams of fence, dividing Ambos Nogales, a Spanish term to describe the community of Nogales north and south of the border. Families and loved ones come together at the border to talk, eat and relax. Despite being separated by the fence, they find shade under mesquite trees…

Foley’s War: Occupying the U.S.-Mexico Border

All StoriesKendal Blust04/28/20163

Wind whips through the dry grass at the base of the U.S.-Mexico border fence where Tim Foley stands smoking a cigarette and surveying vast wilderness of the Altar Valley. Here, just west of the Sasabe border crossing, the 20-foot tall steel fencing abruptly gives way to straggling barbed wire as the physical border, so easily…