Image by: Jason DeLeon
Soiled jeans worn by a young girl who attempted to cross the Sonoran desert with her family.
University of Washington archaeology lecturer Jason De Leon was pro–immigration most of his life. Then a few years ago, he started the Undocumented Migration Project. Jason and others go into the desert between southern Arizona and Mexico to study the objects migrants leave behind. Initially, Jason was planning to use his archaeology background to look at what happens when people try to cross the US–Mexico border illegally. But what he found changed the scope of his project, and it's left him more confused about immigration than ever. Jason tells KUOW's Jeannie Yandel why he keeps going back to the border. Read the full description.
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University of Washington archaeology lecturer Jason De Leon was pro–immigration most of his life. Then a few years ago, he started the Undocumented Migration Project. Jason and others go into the desert between southern Arizona and Mexico to study the objects migrants leave behind. Initially, Jason was planning to use his archaeology background to look at what happens when people try to cross the US–Mexico border illegally. But what he found changed the scope of his project, and it's left him more confused about immigration than ever. Jason tells KUOW's Jeannie Yandel why he keeps going back to the border.
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