Sunday, April 8, 2007

A Walk Through My Front Yard

These are views from different sides of my house. Illegal immigrants come over these hills and head towards town.



This is a wash directly in front of my house. It is hard to see in the pictures above, which is exactly why the illegal immigrants use it as their path into town.



The illegal immigrants leave behind clothes, water bottles, backpacks, gloves, etc.



I came across two barbed wire fences while walking through the wash. Both of them had been cut through so the illegal immigrants could avoid climbing out of the wash.



One of the backpacks that I came across looked much newer than the rest I had seen. I opened it up to find a full change of clothes: a pair of pants, a shirt, and a pair of socks. In the pants pocket I found bus tickets used to travel north through Mexico. The date on the last ticket was from 5 days prior. Most likely the owner of the backpack was in the wash only one day before I was.

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