Look, Mom, we built a border wall!
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
May 31, 2019
3 minutes
The colossal weight of decades of congressional failure has landed in the tiny border town of Sunland Park, N.M., a bit west of El Paso, Texas.
It arrived, seemingly overnight, in the form of tons of steel and whole lot of hype.
Mayor Javier Perea barely had time to blink.
In the span of a week, national and international press descended. And a ribbon cutting was held on May 30 for what was billed as the nation's first privately built
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