Remember When the Border Was a Net?

Jeevan Sivasubramaniam Posted by Jeevan Sivasubramaniam, Managing Director, Editorial, Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc.



In connection to our discussion about immigration and border issues, I've always found this photo to be an interesting piece.


In connection to our discussion about immigration and border issues, I've always found this photo to be an interesting piece.  Photographer Alex Webb took this photo in 1979 of people playing volleyball using the border fence between Arizona and Mexico as the net. Yep, we can say that in our lifetime, there was once an instant where the greatest border tension focused on who would win a volleyball game.