Artsy expression of open borders abounds . . .
Among the more than half a million children of undocumented immigrants who can stay in the United States under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, enacted in 2012. Most came from Mexico and other Latin American countries and are now adults.
They can work and go to school, but with no path to citizenship or access to federal welfare programs or student aid.
And at any time, politicians or the courts could make DACA disappear and they would be deported to places that are at best just a foggy childhood memory.
In Kansas City, Latino artists weave this sense of living in limbo into their creations.
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
These Kansas City Latino artists live in limbo under DACA - and that shapes their work
Expressing their heritage through their art is "like being proud, but at the same time it's like we're in a cage."
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