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Tijuana: Staying Negative
“The virus doesn’t have borders.”
Tijuana: TJ Remixed
“Tijuana makes me happy.”
San Diego: Fence Jumpers
“If the height goes up again we are going to see more severe injuries.”
Campo: High Pointer
“You get up on a high point. You see the bad guys. You call them in.”
Nogales: Mexico’s Border Patrol
“That’s the hardest part of the job, to convince them not to go, not to put themselves in danger.”
Arivaca: Broken Fences
“If they cut fences, we don’t know until we’re missing cows.”
Nogales: Born and Raised
“I never really felt illegal.”
Sierra Vista: Virtual Vigilante
“A good general picks his battlefields. What better place than the border?”
Tucson: Water in the Desert
“It’s wrong, but it doesn’t call for death by thirst in the desert.”
Ciudad Juarez: The War on News
“Someone gave them my phone number. It was a death threat.”
Ciudad Juarez: Where Tires Go to Die
“Well, they just accumulate.”
Ciudad Juarez: Drug Ballads
“Now, they only write ballads about drug lords.”
Paso Lajitas: The Old Crossing
“It was a beautiful town with a lot of people. And now we’re all alone.”
San Antonio del Bravo: La Doctora
“If they close it, I think the town would die.”
Laredo: A Place to Work
“I say it should be allowed because it helps Laredo, Tx. and Nuevo Laredo.”
Laredo and Nuevo Laredo: Los Dos Laredos
“We are one and the same city.”
Nuevo Laredo: Mr. Nobody
“Life is impossible like this. You have to struggle, you have to keep going.”
Los Ebanos: Fuerza Humana
“It’s the only one in the world that joins two countries with human power.”
Progreso: More Dentists than Dogs
“You always feel you are Mexican, living here for a while. But that while is your whole life.”
Brownsville: Border Walk
“I need to show them what it looks like to civilly disagree.”
Brownsville: No Man’s Green
“If you come down here and see fences and see the third-world conditions, then everybody is just an illegal immigrant.”
Boca Chica Beach: Mouth of the Border
“That’s exactly why they call it Rio Bravo.”
