For more than a decade, Alvaro Enciso, 78, has hammered together wood
and junk scavenged from the desert, fashioning more than 1,700 crosses
in a workshop at his Tucson home. Each cross is unique.

Every Tuesday, he and other volunteers trek into the remote desert of
Southern Arizona to plant the crosses in memory of migrants who have
died. 

It’s his tribute to them, and these crosses are the only marker that many of them may ever get.

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