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Altar/Sasabe Highway

Tilling and blading of Sonoran Desert for buffelgrass

Tilling and blading of Sonoran Desert for buffelgrass
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Shrine on Altar/Sasabe Highway

Shrine on Altar/Sasabe Highway
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Migrant van on Altar/Sásabe Highway

A constant stream of migrants travel this road, many on vans such as this. Around 2004 to 2006 seemed to be the height of migration with incredible numbers of people traversing this stretch of road every day. I estimated upwards of several thousand per day at the peak.

Migrant van on Altar/Sásabe Highway
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Tank trap and overturned car, Sonora

Tank Trap and overturned car, Sonora
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Burned-out migrant van on Altar/Sasabe

Every time a migrant van breaks down on the Altar to Sasabe "highway" it is turned over and torched!

Burned-out migrant van on Altar/Sasabe
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