There is an old saying: “In Ireland a hundred miles is a long way, and in America a hundred years is a long time.”
I drove 2,000 miles exploring the Texas-Mexico borderlands, experiencing a landscape so vast, so endless and unforgiving, on my return it felt as if I had been to space and back. Driving through the hallucinatory desert mountains, I wondered at the fates of migrant travellers who cross this parched expanse on foot.
