The fence closest to and facing the Mexican side includes the artwork considered murals by their creators. Gregory worked with a group of about 20 deported veterans to install the inverted flag painting. Since then, the group has grown to about 60 as more recent deportees began adopting and supporting the project.
They periodically touch up the paint when it begins to fade because of salt and moisture from the nearby Pacific Ocean. Through his work in San Francisco, where he founded the Veterans Mural Project, or Veterans Alley, in the Tenderloin District, the artist discovered the therapeutic effects of painting murals for himself and fellow veterans. When he realized that another population of veterans -- those deported to other countries -- could benefit from what he says are the healing powers of art, but could not travel to the US to participate in the project, he brought the project to them in A deported veteran is coming back 'home' after 14 years in Mexico.
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Generally, the onetime immigrants share one thing in common: They were honorably discharged from the military but later convicted of crimes after returning to civilian life. Many of the group of nearly 70 living in Tijuana describe themselves as discharged, discarded and in urgent need of help after risking their lives to protect the United States.
They say they are separated from their families, exiled to a country they barely know and -- in many cases -- still dealing with the wounds of war, psychological and medical issues that they say can't be adequately treated in Mexico. The flag painting is their distress signal, they say. But while they see it as a legitimate form of protest, displaying the American flag upside down is controversial. It can be interpreted as un-American and disrespectful. When someone from the US government last week called the United US Deported Veterans support house -- a center in Tijuana that helps deported servicemen find housing, medical care and sources of income -- it was not the message that Hector Lopez, co-founder of the center, was hoping for.
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In the five years since the creation of the mural, which also includes the names of deported veterans in Tijuana, the group had not previously received this type of request, Lopez says. And, Lopez said, the art does not signify that the United States as a whole is in distress.
We mean no disrespect to the United States, a country we consider home and risked our lives for," Lopez said. Lopez said the veterans would prefer not to get into a fight. They need to work with the US government and immigration agencies, Lopez says, to have any chance of returning to the United States. But the decision is out of their hands.
Deported vets helped paint this upside-down US flag on the border. Will they have to remove it?
The work belongs to Gregory, Lopez explained. The US Border Patrol says the flag painting is not the only one being scrutinized. After CNN made requests for more information regarding the inverted flag painting, the US Customs and Border Protection's San Diego Sector sent a statement saying it has received complaints from the public about graffiti on the south side of the border wall at Friendship Circle. The patrol agent fired through a border fence while he was responding to a smuggling incident in downtown Nogales back in October around Grainy video of the shooting, captured by a pair of cameras operated by the border patrol, appeared to show Rodriguez lying on the ground while shots were fired from the U.
The video played in court also showed a pair of individuals getting stuck in an attempt to scale the border fence and later sees two people — possibly the same as the first pair — make throwing motions. Swartz has said he was pushed into action when people began hurling rocks at him from the other side of the border. Seven rocks were found on the U. Sixteen shots were fired over the course of three separate bouts of gunfire, with Rodriguez lying facedown on the ground, barely moving, during the latter two volleys, according to the newspaper.
Swartz's lawyers have argued the footage is unreliable and requested that it not be shown during trial. District Judge Raner C. I ask Agent Robert Rodriguez what has changed most during his years patrolling this section of the border, and he says he'll show me. We drive through McAllen, Texas, past orange groves and fields of sugarcane and pull up to a stretch of border wall. This part of the wall was built almost a decade ago, and, Agent Rodriguez, you've been working here about 10 years.
How has that changed the way you see people crossing, the numbers of people? It was very common to see a group of 40, 50 coming across at one time in this area. That has gone down, if not to about half, even less. About 55 miles out of miles along the river are already covered by a wall in this sector. We walk a couple hundred yards to the border itself, the Rio Grande, where a long slope of rocks leads down to the water on the U.
Trees and shrubs line the Mexico side. Rodriguez says cartels control all the illegal border crossings here, and they have years of experience learning how best to evade agents like him, like - they use scouts. And it's kind of easy because they pick the highest trees because they want that - the best vantage point that they can get. And I imagine they know your tactics as well as you know their tactics. This is, like, a well-trod path. Rodriguez says the people who enter the U.
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Half don't want to be found. They might be smugglers. The other half want to claim asylum, and they are hoping agents find them as soon as possible.
It's a group of about 10 people - little kids - and another group coming. There's a woman carrying a baby. There's probably about six kids under the age of Eventually, about 25 people gather in the shade by the side of the road. About half of them are young kids. Agent Rodriguez goes through the line and asks people where they're from. These days, 80 percent of the people who cross the border here are not from Mexico.
Most are from Central America, trying to escape gang violence.
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Agent Rodriguez tells everybody, sit down; take everything out of your bags; take off your shoe laces, everything out of your pockets except for paper money and ID. The immigrants are hardly carrying anything. Each person gets a clear plastic bag to put their belongings in. Through interpreter Four months ago, my husband died in Boston, and I was receiving calls threatening me because they thought I had inherited money. They told me that they were watching my daughters and that if I didn't get them the money in time, something would happen to them.
So I decided to come here. She told her kids they were going on vacation. Another woman in the group, Jessica Carolina Santos Lopez, came from Honduras with her 9-year-old daughter and a month-old baby boy. She told me the worst part was when the smugglers put her group in a trailer for three days. Through interpreter We suffered. I even vomited because I got dizzy. I was scared because I felt like I was suffocating and my son, too.
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So I kept putting water on him. The baby has rashes from the heat. I ask them whether they've heard about family separation or about the Trump administration limiting the grounds people can use to claim asylum. They say they haven't heard about any of it. Back in the car, I ask Agent Rodriguez about that, and he says you can't always believe these stories. So you think they probably have heard this and are just telling us what they think we want to hear. How many of those folks did you talk to that have relatives in the United States already?
In this case, we just don't know.
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