Art on the Mexico and US Border
How Art is Being Used for Social, Cultural, and Political Expression
The border between the United States and Mexico has been a focal point of a significant amounts of media attention in recent years. The newly elected US president has consistent stated his intentions to build a wall between the two countries in an overall effort to crack down on illegal immigration. In some of his acts as President, the newly elected Donald Trump has ordered increased immigration enforcement which has come in the way of mass deportations and cancelled visas from certain countries that have been associated with terrorism in the Middle East. He had previously announced that he would build a wall between the US and Mexico and even went as far as claiming that he would make Mexico pay for its construction; a contemptuous claim that has worked to polarize many political groups, in both foreign and domestic areas.
The border between the US and Mexico has not always been a static fixture in either countries landscape. In fact, the 1821 US-Mexico border was rather dynamic and vague in its establishment when Mexico declared its independence from Spain as the border was never officially surveyed; however, the border at this time stretched all the way from Oregon, to Louisiana, and even as far north as Wyoming (Schwartz, 2014). There are some families that have lived on family land through this transition; for example, a family estate in the US southwest could have some generations of Mexicans living on it, and then later being in US territory -- all while being on the same exact location.
Many people fail to realize that it wasn't entirely too long ago when the San Diego and Tijuana border was all in Mexican territory (Wilso, 2010). Therefore, it at least one aspect, the drawing of national borders seems like an arbitrary phenomenon that is not necessarily linked to the culture and...
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