This is the abandoned house in San Ygnacio that Avery used as a modeled his cover folio, made of cast paper and pieces of clothing (mostly socks) he found abandoned on the Rio Grande riverbank in Laredo. “Thinking about how 73 people could sleep in a small house,” wrote Avery, “triggered memories of my work with refugees in Somalia and Indonesia.” He was the medical director in a large refugee camp in Somalia in 1980 and a photograph he made of Vietnamese refugees in the cargo hold of Ship Sea Sweep became an inspiration for their 21st century project. Their subject matter came from a 2018 article in the Laredo Morning Times, describing a raid by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) patrol on a “stash house” where 73 migrants were hiding, waiting to be moved further north. Avery and Dolan have been artist friends and collaborators for 35 years. Stash House is a paper/print collaborative artist book project about human trafficking along the border in South Texas, created by Eric Avery and Susan Mackin Dolan with students at the Southwest School of Art in the spring of 2020. Graphic Arts Collection GAX 2021- in process **Note, some images will load slowly but we wanted you to have good resolution The hinged folio cover to hold the interior prints is a molded paper linocut by Eric Avery. The interior house view is printed on paper made by Susan Mackin Dolan. Linocuts on hand made paper in linen hinged folio cover. side.įor the police chiefs and sheriffs, that means even more time spent on the humanitarian mission at the border rather than on local law enforcement.Eric Avery and Susan Mackin Dolan, Stash House Folio, 2020. Migrants cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Miguel Alemán, Mexico, on May 27 with the help of a smuggler tasked with rowing groups of people to the U.S. We've already exceeded that number here in the Rio Grande Valley this fiscal year," Hastings said. "If you look back to 2014, a year which we saw a record number of children crossing the border, or 2019, we also were around 35,000 for the whole fiscal year. There they wait for decisions in their asylum cases.
And unlike single adults and families, who may be released with court dates, children are held in Border Patrol facilities until they can be transferred to Health and Human Services custody and eventually the homes of relatives or sponsors in the U.S. Hastings also said the record number of children crossing the border is taking a considerable amount of manpower.ĭuring the Biden administration, only children who arrive at the border without their parents are guaranteed entry. These are things that normally our federal partners would be doing." Children are changing the gameīecause of the spiking volume of border crossers, about 40 percent of federal border agents in the Rio Grande Valley are busy simply processing those who have been caught or who have reported to legal ports of entry, Border Patrol Sector Chief Brian Hastings said. "We're doing the rescues out in the rural areas of the county these immigrants find themselves in peril. Federal agents are so busy processing newly apprehended migrants that local police have to do some of their other jobs - like raiding stash houses, busting coyotes or saving border crossers suffering from dehydration and heat exhaustion. The real way the migrant surge is affecting them, said Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra, another member of the breakfast group, is by draining resources. Rodriguez said the same applies to migrants: "These folks are not coming to live here.
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