The exhibition La Frontera: The Cultural Impact of Mexican Migration addresses the dynamics of the border itself as the choke point...«Also inextricably connected to illegal immigration in the U.S. public’s mind is the current drug trafficking and drug related violence and political breakdown in Mexico. Politicians in Arizona, including John McCain who previously courted the Hispanic vote for his presidential bid, rhetorically associate all Mexican migrants with drug traffic, kidnapping and gun violence. Former Mexican president Vicente Fox, in a recent New York Times interview, pointed out that the increasing number of criminal drug families and the gun violence in Mexico were both absolutely caused by the huge U.S. drug and weapons markets.»
Photo: © David Taylor, Pedestrian Fence Construction, NM, 2007
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