Collusion in Central Valley
I have been working w/ the ACLU since 2016 and always enjoy the process and work that gets produced especially when it aids in telling the story of regular people fighting for human and civil rights. The art for this report supports the stories of three people who migrated to the US to find work. Erika, Nestor, and Nelson who were all targeted by ICE and further disenfranchised by their local law enforcement.
Asylum is a term that allows immigrants from any country to migrate to another for political and/or safety reasons. But, the folks targeted and deported consistently in the United States are Black and Brown people. This is not hearsay but historical fact. See the Chinese exclusion act, the Bracero program, the treatment of Mexican and Central Americans vs the red carpet for Cuban exiles or immigrants from Europe.
The illustrations I made were made for a study in collaboration w/ California Rural Legal Assistance foundation and it looks at central California specifically and interrogates how the Sheriff’s in the region collude with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcements) to deport Latinxs.
READ IT HERE
For these digital illustrations I used an Ipad pro, photoshop, and a program called AstroPad.
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Individual sketches
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Comic Sketch
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Individual finished
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Color comic
