Border Justice

It is ironic and amazing to know that although we need them, they are unwanted.

   Waiters, Housekeepers, Landscapers, Cooks, Agriculturists, Dancers, Singers, Artists, Cosmetologists, Teachers, Business owners, Fashion Designers and so on; Aren't these the people that grow our food, clean our yards, make our streets look nice and ultimately help make America more beautiful.  I encourage you to close your eyes and think about living a day without an immigrant, What would the United States be like?  It is the color of everyone's culture that paints the face on the U.S., making it what it is today, a place where many people come together to live the American Dream.

As I saw the wall in the middle of campus that symbolized the cry of people pleading to make a

 change, my heart shattered when I thought of what those people must suffer in order to come here

.  That same day I did not get any of that off of my head, so I thought that I should let all my feeling

 out and express them through my art. I decided to make a "cajita". A cajita is a little box and in it

 people express what the border issues are to them.  For some people it means symbolizing religious

 figures, or expressing the reasons why people risk it all to come to the U.S. 

That same day after school I went out and bought the supplies I needed and I spent that whole

 afternoon making the cajita.  The next morning I was headed to Mexico to visit my husbands family

 and we postponed the trip to later that same day.  That Wednesday morning I headed to school to

 put my "cajita" on display with the rest.  In the cajita I made I expressed the reasons why people

 come here.  I pasted paper money, religious figures and crosses for those who have died.  While I

 observed the wall, I thought the art work clearly symbolized the suffering and the barriers that many

 people are now facing. My final thought was that we need a change in our society.