Political leaders and community activists gathered this week to express their displeasure and dismay with the ongoing border-wall construction at Friendship Park, which sits on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean between San Diego and Tijuana.
For decades, the park has been known as a gathering spot where family members and friends, from both sides of the border, could meet with the wall between them.
Access to the area has been controlled and monitored by Border Patrol agents on weekends.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has started the work to replace two barriers that according to the agency are decaying and in danger of falling down, creating a hazard for the public, migrants and the agents who patrol the area.
The project calls for two 30-foot walls to be erected, work began a few weeks ago and it’s expected to last six months.
“There’s no reason for this wall, there’s no reason for the Trump wall, there’s no reason for the Biden administration to put up the Trump wall,” said U.S. Rep. Juan Vargas, D-California. “We’re not happy about this, we’re not going to allow this to stand.”
Vargas was joined by California Assemblyman David Alvarez and state Sen. Steve Padilla along with community leaders and members of Friends of Friendship Park.
“Why is this country so afraid of families who simply want to see one another, simply want to be together for a few hours across the border line,” said Bishop Minerva Carcaño, of the California Endowment. “Where is the courage, where is the humanity.”
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