Jean Guerrero: A Trump-like border wall is about to be built — unless Biden stops it
President Joe Biden should call off construction crews gathering at the southernmost edge of California's coastline to erect a border wall that epitomizes Trump's dystopian vision. The planned double-layered, 30-foot-tall steel wall would create another heartbreak at a historic site for binational unity, Friendship Park, inaugurated 52 years ago by First Lady Pat Nixon. Back then, just a few ...
by Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times
Feb 28, 2023
4 minutes
President Joe Biden should call off construction crews gathering at the southernmost edge of California's coastline to erect a border wall that epitomizes Trump's dystopian vision.
The planned double-layered, 30-foot-tall steel wall would create another heartbreak at a historic site for binational unity, Friendship Park, inaugurated 52 years ago by First Lady Pat Nixon. Back then, just a few strings of barbed wire separated the U.S. and Mexico. Archival footage of the park's 1971 inauguration the first lady disturbed by fence on the mesa and asking that it be taken down so she could people in Mexico. "I hope there won't
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