By Paco Baca
In the Trump era, the wall is no longer a metaphor—it’s a method. It doesn’t just divide territories; it segments rights, surveils bodies, and redefines who gets to belong. Anti-immigrant policies have evolved into social architecture, affecting not only migrants but also American citizens now living under increasingly normalized surveillance.
This video, THE WALL, doesn’t shout—it smirks. It reminds us that the wall isn’t confined to the border: it’s in sanctuary cities, in control algorithms, in narratives that criminalize human mobility. And most disturbingly, it’s within us—when we accept exclusion as part of the landscape.
Paco Baca presents this visual essay as an uncomfortable mirror. Because if the wall is for all, then so is the responsibility to dismantle its logic, its rhetoric, and its silence.
