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There are few debates in the United States as hotly torn apart as immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2005, three friends banded together to cast a fresh look at this red button topic.

This creative trio didn't want to proselytize or argue or blast off emails to voters. They wanted to capture the daily experience of the Mexican migrants attempting to enter the U.S. illegally and the American Minutemen attempting to spot and report them.

Cameras were produced. Envelopes were self-addressed and stamped. The small group set off to find border crossers and border watchers willing to photograph their experiences along the remote stretch of land that connects the U.S. to its southern neighbor. Eventually, a name was decided upon: the Border Film Project.

Three years, 73 cameras, and nearly 2,000 photos later, The Border Film Project boasts a moving collection of images from both sides of this fractious issue.

We wrote about the endeavor years ago. Recently, we emailed the project's founders, Rudy Adler, Victoria Criado, and Brett Huneycutt, to see how things are going:

Hey, guys. Your background page details how you distribute cameras to migrants and Minutemen. How did the two groups react, initially, to the idea? Tell us how you went about it.

Surprisingly, the vast majority of migrants we approached were receptive to the project. Granted, many of the 500 migrants that received cameras may have been just fishing for a free camera, but in the end, the migrants that truly believed in the project where the ones that took the best photos. Many migrants expressed a profound desire to show American citizens what they had to endure to arrive in the United States Read the full profile...