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i would have to be invented”

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San Francisco promotes pro-immigrant projects

The programming series comes as Trump’s administration is fighting California over its "sanctuary state" laws

The projects in Sanctuary City take a pro-immigrant stance. Opening this month is a new commission of street posters from the San Francisco-based artist Rodney Ewing, who recreates coldly bureaucratic fingerprint cards that are painted with blasts of colour denoting national flags and personalised with stories from local immigrants. “With the current administration, I have had to re-evaluate what it means to be American and a patriot,” reads one.

On 4 May, the artist duo Chris Treggiari and Sergio de la Torre will station their mobile Sanctuary Print Shop at the corner of Valencia and 24th Street, where they will churn out around 400 posters with the public to cover a nearby wall. Launched in 2007, the shop encourages discussions on policy during the silk-screening process.

Both artists stress that San Francisco’s sanctuary ordinance does not entirely protect the immigrant community. Under the Obama administration, the Bay Area witnessed some 15 raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while the federal agency swept more than 77 businesses in Northern California this February, and more than 20,000 undocumented immigrants were arrested across California in 2017.