“South of the Border” was popularized in 1939 by the singing cowboy Gene Autry. Although its theme doesn’t directly tie into the long-evolving immigrant crisis that manifests itself at the Mexican-U.S. border, at the time I made this rough recording and amateurish video on my laptop, something in the essence of the song struck a chord. Mexico and its myriad cultures holds a special place in my heart. Alas, what is playing out in the United States is only a symptom of population overshoot. The elephant fills the room, denial reigns, mass, human die-off looms.
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