‘The Wall Is a Fantasy’. A week in the borderlands with migrants and guards.
NOGALES, Mexico — A few hundred feet from the American border, José Manuel Talavera contemplated his challenge with the focus, if not quite the physique, of an Olympic high jumper. A stocky coffee farmer from Honduras, he was fresh off La Bestia, or the Beast — the freight train network used by migrants to cross Mexico. Now he was preparing to vault into the United States, for the third time.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/10/16/opinion/sunday/16Walsh10-web/16Walsh10-web-superJumbo.jpg https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/10/16/opinion/sunday/13Walsh2-web/13Walsh2-web-master675.jpg
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/opinion/sunday/the-wall-is-a-fantasy.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-h
#murs #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Mexique #barrières_frontalières #USA #Etats-Unis #frontières
cc @albertocampiphoto @daphne @marty