Janet Goldner

Operation Streamline is a program prosecutes migrants who cross illegally with a criminal offense rather than a civil one. The court room was full of brown people, mostly men, a few women. They were called in groups of 10. Their hands and feet were shackled. They stood in a line with their lawyers behind them. Their names were read and were asked a series of questions. One after the other they answered down the line.

Caroline Felicity Antone, Ophelia Rivas, Ray in front of Ofelia’s garden on the O’Odham Reservation. Her’s is the last house before the border.

The US/Mexican border on the O’Odham Reservation.

Dreamer, Josue Saldivar came to Tucson from Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico when he was 8 years old. He didn’t realize he was in the US illegally until he was a senior in high school and started to apply for scholarships to go to college. “Before that I thought I could accomplish what anyone else could,” he said.

Catholic Workers house. They feed the hungry without asking questions or for papers.

Desert landscape. Even walking a short distance to take this photograph, Janet got a few thorns in her shoes and feet.

It is important to consider the intertwined relationships between migrants, refugees & homelessness. Jon McLane, one of the founders of Safe Park Dream Center, standing at the door of his cabin.

The fence to the sky: the 30′ high fence between Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, AZ.

Artwork on the Mexican side of the fence between Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, AZ. You can see thru the fence to the houses and the car on the US side of the border. The distance between the I-beams is enough for your arm to be in the US while your body is in Mexico. The mural is titled “Paseo de Humanidad” (Parade of Humanity) is by artists Alberto Morackis, Alfred Quiróz and Guadalupe Serrano.

Not far beyond the cemetery is a Mexican government border station. At the Red Cross trailer migrants can get medical help.

Migrant at Kino Border Initiative Kitchen, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.

Sometimes migrants sleep in the cemetery since no one bothers them there.