My Intervention is called Migrant Walk. I will talk about what happens after one crosses the border. In the first video, my cousin and I took a walk on the Bayonne Bridge to get to the middle where there are two signs New Jersey and New York. First off I want to break down the video for you, what I was trying to point out, and which is crossing the border from Mexico (being New Jersey) to the United States (New York). As you watch the video you see both of them taking turns walking in and out of the frame. But if you look more into we are taking off one piece of clothing which symbolizes what those people lost while getting to the border. Whether it was something personal of theirs, a loved one, and most importantly their freedom once stepping over the border. You can see that in the last two frames only one of us shows again and while the other is missing. This symbolizes the missing children and families once stepping into the United States border whether they got killed or got separated from their families.
I choose this topic because of the numerous people that go missing when getting to the border. Those people had families or loved ones waiting for them on the other side of the wall. In many cases wanting a better future for their children, that's why they would send their own children with a coyote which we call someone who helps people get into the United States illegally. But where are those children or families when they get caught? They are left to survive by themselves in “cages” or others would call them concentration camps where they have little food, no beds, and barely any medical attention for those who are sick. The president and U.S Customs Border Patrol can say they are being taken care of and returned back to their families yet their 150,000 children and people are still held in those cages. How would they return the children to their families if they either do not have the paperwork or lost the paperwork? But they have the nerve to say they are “working out it”. There are so many families without any answers as to where their loved ones are at or even if they are alive. In the collage of photos, you'll see a lot of representation of the journey crossing the border to the rails to represent the cages the people are in. In the middle section of the collage towards the right side, you'll see a resistance group called "Rise and Resist".
Back in 2019 held a silent protest where they showed the truth behind closed doors in the U.S CBP, graphic photos inside the camps, and had extra posters on the side for anyone wanting to join and spread awareness. "They spread so quickly and evolve and transform, and it’s hard to shut them down in the way other forms of communicative protest can be silenced (Lazzaro, 2019)." I chose the artists Haha (Wendy Jacob, Laurie Palmer, and John Ploof) for inspiration for my intervention. The garden serviced as a practical vehicle for discussing issues of mutual interest (Moca, 2004). The signs I have on the bottom of the collage are significant to the quote because one name is from the Ayotzinapa Disappearances or as everyone knows it by the 43 students that vanished into thin air in Mexico. The other name was the son of a Guatemalan family who died in the Border Patrol custody. Someone who is going through something similar like this can get involved or get involved just because.
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