A large flatbed truck pulled up outside a remote immigrant detention center north of Los Angeles last month. On the truck bed, converted into a mobile stage, a band played protest songs. Huge speakers projected them loud across the desert landscape. But were they loud enough, the musicians wondered, to penetrate the detention center’s tall, thick, concrete walls?
Loyda Alvarado looked toward the barbed wire fence and began to sing to the immigrants jailed inside:
Asómate a la ventana, te traje una serenata…