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ah
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so
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we're being watched right now see that
border patrol agent up there see his
lights are on
it's one person who's watching us
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isn't it so fascinating that the simple
act
of drawing a line on a map can transform
the way we see and experience the world
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almost died
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okay
oh thanks it is
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i grew up in a small village which was
once mexico
in southern colorado and
the history of that legacy still exists
it exists in our language it exists in
our food
it exists in our culture
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i always think about this as the border
lands
they stretch not only into the united
states but also into mexico
this region that's defined by borders
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dollars just haven't understand
well i am tapati i am from guadalajara
jalisco
mexico
and i came here to study my master's
degree in tijuana
i have been living for three years
in the us i started working at the
history
since 11 years now
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juana
a
is
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foreign
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really this is one community
this is not two landscapes that are
defined by this wall
this is one landscape that's divided by
this wall
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matias this is what they make the wall
out of
look how thick that steel is oh man
that's heavy i can't hold it with one
hand
i think designing a humane border is to
design
for the people and the ecologies that
are in the borderlands
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we imagine new possibilities in this
landscape
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both cities are very integrated but
we're very separated because of a hassle
for people to go across
people have taken five hours to go
across a bridge
in europe in five hours you can go
across a whole country
and here it's just across one bridge so
we can be very
close one another very separated at the
same time
for people to understand what border
life is
i think a lot of them have to be near
the border
in order for them to understand it
30 years i've been here my family's here
me going across the bridge on a daily
basis you understand how things work
it's not just paper it's reality
it's never felt like two different
countries it's very difficult to find
somebody
in brazil that doesn't have an
attachment to matamoros
so it's vital for both matamoros and
brussels to work
with one another and what we're trying
to push
is integrating a dedicated bike path a
cyclist path
to go across a bridge it's easier to
check a bike than a car
it's more efficient
has any conversations started with
border patrol and i just said
well we've had conversations with cbp
they didn't implement it i think we
should follow up with them
just because you live in mathematics you
live in brownsville doesn't mean you're
not impacted by the other communities
decisions
we think of it as normal but it really
is it's interesting because
it goes back hundreds of years but fear
is a very destructive
emotion you know you just follow the
wall the whole time and you can't help
but think like
you know you're imprisoned in this side
i lost my dog for a couple of months and
i was like she's on the other side of
the
wall but i can't get there you know you
don't know
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um
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so
it's a question of drawing a very hard
line in the sand about what one thing is
and what another thing is
but those lines are complete
obstructions
really people and animals and
water flow across these boundaries
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so we just wanted to see if we could
change the way that this space is
occupied for a moment
so
hmm
uh
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glasses
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you