Ofrenda para los Niños/Altar for the Children

Aimee has made shoes, cages, and altars, all focused on family separation and the incarceration of children by the current Federal administration. This time she put them all together with a caged Ofrenda hung with photographs of children who have died at the southern border of the USA in 2019: 7 in custody and 20 in the zone of danger that surrounds the hideous and utterly pointless wall. That does not include those who have died in the desert during the migration.

She set the caged altar on a busy corner next to the Federal Building during evening rush hour. Many people slowed their steps and gazed at the photographs. Some crossed themselves or doffed their hats, some put a hand on their heart, some made phone photos. We sat across the street from the cage/altar for about an hour and a half; then we packed it back into Aimee's car, and she went off to find a safe place to leave it overnight--perhaps at a church or in a public park in a neighborhood where Ofrendas are understood and respected. (Closeup in Extra.)

In some countries south of the US border, Halloween is not celebrated, but today is known as the Día de los Angelitos, the day of angels, the day to remember children who have died. 

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