Since 2020, more than 100 people have died in immigration custody or during enforcement actions in the United States. The Immigrant Crosses is a traveling memorial of hand-painted wooden crosses, each bearing the name, country of origin, and age of one person who died. We speak their names because remembering is itself an act of mercy.
Since 2020, more than 100 people have died in immigration custody or during enforcement actions in the United States. The Immigrant Crosses project remembers them — not as numbers, but as people.
Each cross in this installation bears a name, a country of origin, and an age. On the back of every cross are two words: No Olvidados — Not Forgotten. Beginning on the World Day for Migrants and Refugees, the crosses travel from parish to parish, standing at church entrances as a call to remember, to pray, and to act.
Remember their names.
Every cross carries a real person's name, country, and age.
Honor their lives.
We hold them in prayer and remembrance across our parishes and schools.
Defend their dignity.
We call on our leaders to protect the lives and dignity of immigrants.
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The names, countries, and ages painted on the crosses come from the ICE Fall Tracker, an independent record cross-checked against reporting from The Guardian, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the ACLU, and the Detention Watch Network.
icefalltracker.com