Your book is going to touch many lives, you are going to make some noise! I feel all humans should be given a chance, and we as a society should be empathetic to needs.
Tim NIchols, Teacher, Tucson, AZ.
About this site
Throught Rascon's lens you can experience the stark reality that awaits immigrants hoping to overcome the desert to a better life. This book paints the entire picture - the hope of generations of families traveling together, the harsh and painful suffering In all.
Bonnie, Arizona Bilingual.
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There are many books that talk about immigrants and their suffering, but none like Anselmo Rascon's Immigration a Deathly Adventure. This book is alive, full of emotion as he illustrates dreams fulfilled and broken; your understanding of immigration will be altered once you read this book. Live the total immigration experience through its pages. Feel the immigrants' pain, hopes, and disappointment. Experience the fear and loneliness. Begin to understand the immigrants' hunger for a new life in a strange land. You will become one with them. This book is bound to change America's attitude toward immigrants.
Hermes Alberto Carvajal, Hispanic International Publishing
Anselmo Rascón has been living in the United States for almost 33 years, 30 of those as a dedicated professional photographer.
Anselmo, a Mexican by birth, spent seven years documenting the immigration experience along the border
from Tijuana-San Isidro to El Paso-Ciudad Juárez for his book, Immigration, Deathly Adventure. This book is now
published and ready for your review.
His coverage is comprehensive and the photographs are brilliant and telling. His lens and his pen have recorded conversations and experiences with the Border Patrol, BORSTAR, Minuteman, Human Border, and No More Deaths, and, of course, immigrants. He traveled to the desert alone more than 130 times, journeying to unimaginable remote places that are hidden and far away.
Along his journeys, he was prey to the wild animals that live in the desert. On occasion, he suffered heatstroke, a common malady of immigrants traveling without adequate water and food. He visited the jail where Sheriff Joe Arpaio
sends those under suspicion of been undocumented.
As he celebrates his 30th anniversary as a professional photographer, Anselmo dedicates this book to the people who have supported his career through the years, and he promises more books to come. Please Bookmark this site and recommend it to your friends.
A portion of the profits will be donated to inmigrants students, giving them the opportunity to be able to develop their own skill without the matter to their nationality or color.
On this map you can see part of the Arizona desert, notice the huge distances to the nearest cities.
The charts above are: left is the immigrants dead in Arizona, center death locations from 2000-2007 and the right is for the weather record and averages.
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The chart for locations 2000-2007 cortesy of Humane Borders
The flag is to show where the water is, you can see it at distance because is blue. This are placed by the Humane Borders Org.
This persons was lost in the desert for more than 5 days and was almost dehidratated. This is what happen to his feet for the walk.
What you see here is the rest point and the last. After this stop the immigants are going to be transportated to the nearest city and will be clean.
