Immigration 2025: Bearing Witness

I created this series as an ally–not to speak for immigrants but to stand beside them. Layered with sourced information, each symbolic portrait holds space for presence, dignity, and humanity in a moment marked by removal and erasure, allowing art to speak where liberty and law have failed. Today, the United States is building the largest immigration enforcement system in its history. This expansion is perpetuating a form of systemic racism, with unprecedented levels of cruelty, that operates in direct opposition to the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law. This work is offered as an act of bearing witness, of honoring, and as an invitation to reflect on interconnectedness and hope.