Muro Loco / Wall Crazy

The fence in back with the barbed wire is from the Obama era. Every administration, especially starting with Clinton, has added to the militarization of the border. And each additional layer costs lives as people try riskier and riskier routes across the desert and enriches cartels, all without actually stopping drugs, which mostly come in through the ports of entry.

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I do have lots of shots of the border fence and road with people or vehicles, though for this series I'm mostly avoiding them. Whether they make it into the final curation will depend on what I end up deciding I want to say. Maybe there will be a part with people and the rest without. I think the vibe I'm going for is better served without any ties to scale or events, as if it's just this surreal sculpture in the service of fascism way out in the wilderness.

Or maybe I'm overthinking it as usual.

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Muro Loco/Wall Crazy

Fence or wall? Depends how you look at it and what you're trying to accomplish with a name.

It is officially called a fence. Supporters, most of whom have never seen it, like to call it a wall.

Fence to me conveys permeability, impermanence, a barrier with limited utility such as keeping your dog in or your neighbor's prying eyes out. Wall conveys solidity, permanence, impenetrability, strength.

View it straight on and you can see it is full of holes. The 6" square tubes it's built from are set at 45°, thereby measuring 8" across on the diagonal. There is a 4" gap between them. 8" of steel/4" gap. One third of the "wall" is air. Cut one post and you get a 16" gap, easy to walk through.

But view it at a slight angle and it appears as a solid, corrugated wall of iron.

This is how they want us to look at it: from their angle, through their worldview; not straight on where we can see them for what they are.

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Muro Loco/Wall Crazy
EoW, or "End of Wall". This is where asylum seekers are brought and walk around the fence after paying cartels who control this area. One Border Patrol agent recently told me that, according to a recent intel briefing he got, the fighting that had been going on between factions of the Sinaloa cartel had been settled, with Cazadores (Hunters) being in control. I haven't heard gunfire here in a while.

The new administration will certainly want to fill the gap east of here through the Pajarita Mountains, a designated Wilderness area. Then, instead of simply walking around the end of the fence migrants will go through cuts in the fence like they do west of here near Lukeville, AZ. Cutting the fence is a trivial matter, easily accomplished with a cheap battery powered grinder.

There is no such thing as a secure border. You can have a stable border. A humane border. A common sense border. But you cannot stop people who are desperate.

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A few more Muro Loco/Wall Crazy for the evening before I go to bed.

U.S. border fence from Mexico.

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