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So I always thought
it was Nogales.

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And I was wrong.

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I didn't cross the Nogales.

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And it was interesting to go
back to Agua Prieta, which

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just happened yesterday.

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So this is like--

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I'm still fucking
processing this shit.

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I went to Agua Prieta, and
I hadn't seen this scene

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of seeing somebody cross from
the United States side, which--

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now they were
probably homeless--

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from the United States side
go into the Mexican side,

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walk across the border,
and then buy some food

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on the Mexican side
and then walk back.

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And they didn't have
to show any form of ID.

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This is 1999.

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And I two years ago, when I
was here, I went to Nogales,

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and it did not look like that.

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But Agua Prieta did, and
I just got my aha moment.

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That's where I fucking crossed.

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And I was in a shelter there.

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And so this is
based on that scene.

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"Citizenship."

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It was clear they were hungry,
with their carts empty,

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the clothes inside,
their empty hands.

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They were hungry
because their hands

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were empty, their
hands in trash cans,

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the trash cans on the
street, the asphalt

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street on the red dirt,
the dirt taxpayers pay for,

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up to that invisible line--

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visible thick white
paint, visible booth,

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visible with the fence
darting from the booths.

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Booth, road, booth, road,
booth, road, office building,

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then the fence.

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Fence, fence, fence.

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It started from a corner
with an iron pole, always

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an iron pole at the beginning.

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Those men, those women
could walk between booths,

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say, "hi" to white or
brown officers, no problem.

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The problem, I think, were
carts, belts, jackets.

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We didn't have any, or
maybe not the problem,

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our skin sunburned.

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All of us spoke Spanish.

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We didn't know how that had
ended up that way on that side.

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We didn't know how
we had ended up here.

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We didn't know,
but we understood

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why they walk the
opposite direction

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to buy food on this side This
side, we all know, is hunger.

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