"Build That Wall!": A Local History

"Build That Wall!": A Local History
By Mark Binelli
Guernica

AD: Marisa Naksone

"Meissner’s belief that the extreme inhospitality of the desert would form a natural deterrent proved naive. 'We started seeing people going out to the canyons, very rugged terrain, very remote terrain,' Sheriff Estrada told me. Since the Border Patrol began keeping statistics in 1998, more dead undocumented immigrants have been found in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert than in any other region of the southern border of the US—2,701 bodies have been discovered between 1998 and 2013."