BBC NEWS | World | Americas | State-of-the-art shoes aid migrants
Artist Judi Werthein has walked smack into the middle of this controversy.She is hoping to leave her footprint with a special “crossing trainer” she has designed to help illegal immigrants negotiate the sometimes deadly terrain they encounter when crossing the border from Mexico to the US.
Migrants waiting for dark to hop the border fence from Tijuana into San Diego start calling out their shoe sizes when they see the boxes in Werthein’s arms.
People start emerging from their makeshift homes in rusted cars and the cement channel that runs parallel to the border fence and drains Tijuana’s fetid run-off.
More in this SDUT article.
via: bb
Gizmodo picked up on it as well. I think the irony is that they are supposedly for illegal immigrants and yet cost more than $200. Supposedly they’re on sale at “hip stores in San Diego” but I sure as hell haven’t seen ‘em. Then again, I probably don’t got to hip stores in san diego.