“Hostile Terrain 94,” an exhibition created by the Undocumented Migration Project, will open Monday at the Wignall Museum on Chaffey College’s Rancho Cucamonga campus.

The exhibition, which runs through March 14, seeks to raise awareness of the human cost of U.S. border policies, according to a news release from Chaffey College.

In 1994, the U.S. Border Patrol implemented the immigration enforcement strategy Prevention Through Deterrence, shifting border crossings away from urban centers. That strategy has increased the number of migrant deaths due to people crossing in more treacherous areas, according to the news release.

In preparation for the exhibition, more than 350 people filled out 4,400 toe tags in workshop sessions in October and November, using data on thousands of migrants who have died while crossing from Mexico to the United States since 1994. The tags will be presented on a map as part of the exhibition.

Those who filled out the tags included students from San Bernardino Valley College and Cal State San Bernardino.

Brianna McKindley, a fire technology major and a member of Chaffey’s Puente Project, is one of the students who participated in the toe tag workshops. One of the tags she filled out was for a 15-year-old boy from Mexico who died when he attempted to cross the Sonoran Desert from Mexico into the United States in the late 1990s, according to the news release.

“I’m 18, I have a cozy bed at home and a mother that feeds me, so it was sad to me that he died wanting a better life for him and his family,” McKindley said in the news release.

“I found the workshops emotionally difficult, but they also provided a platform to share personal stories and experiences, to discuss the realities of migration, and to bear witness to the loss of human life,” Rebecca Trawick, director of the Wignall Museum, said in the news release.

In addition to the map, the exhibition will include artifacts, as well as audio and video related to the project, according to Trawick.

There will also be an exhibition walk-through and reception 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 10 with UCLA anthropologist Jason De León and co-curator Michael Wells. At that event, De León will be available for a signing of his books “The Land of Open Graves” and “Soldiers and Kings” from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Visitors are welcome to view the exhibition any time during the reception and do not need to be present the entire time.

The Wignall Museum is open 10 a.m-4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and noon- 4 p.m. Saturdays.

For information, go to chaffey.edu/wignall.