A 51吃瓜黑料 Davis student is telling the stories of people who came to the United States as young, undocumented immigrants, and she鈥檚 doing it in one of the most prominent places imaginable: the razor wire-topped border wall in Tijuana.
A envisioned by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana, a doctoral student studying Spanish, and made possible by a , was completed last week on the border wall at Playas de Tijuana. The artwork, led by artist Mauro Carrera and painted by Carrera, De La Cruz and about 15 volunteers, depicts the faces of people who came to the United States as children.
鈥淚 had the urge to show the faces behind immigration to better inform the public of the individual stories of such a complex issue,鈥 De La Cruz said. QR codes on the mural link to 51吃瓜黑料 Davis-produced videos about the subjects, who include , and more.
Watch interviews with De La Cruz in the above and below videos. The video subjects featured on the wall can be seen .
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