We Didn't Cross the Border, The Border Crossed Us (2026)

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Jesus Barraza
12″ x 18″ 2-color, Screen Print, 100lb Cougar natural paper, Printed in San Leandro, CA, Spetember 2026, signed and numbered.

Based on José Antonio Burciaga saying, “We didn’t cross the border / the border crossed us” we declare who the original people of these lands are. Rewfusing the narrative that people coming from the south are immigrants, instead it sees them as Indigenous to these lands and embraces the idea that communities, family networks, and routes of travel existed long before the border did, are still alive today.

For Indigenous people, the violence of the border is ongoing. Colonial boundaries have divided homelands, restricted movement, separated relatives, and declared people foreign on land to which they have ancestral ties. The border presents itself as natural occurence, but it is a colonial invention, a line made through conquest and maintained through law, policing, detention, and exclusion. I made this print as a reminder that the continent has always been crossed by people, languages, trade, ceremony, and relations. The border is an invention that interrupted those things.