On August 27, 2005, a large crowd including residents of a psychiatric facility in Mexicali gathered just to the south of a jagged, oceanside metal fence in Playas di Tijuana, Mexico. The crowd counted down and watched, cheering, as David “The Bullet” Smith shot out of a cannon, flew through the air, and landed, bouncing several times, in a net slung in San Diego’s Border Field State Park. This event, staged to critique U.S. immigration...