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On a sunny and modestly warm day in mid-November, I have a clear view of the San Rafael Valley from high in Montezuma Pass in the Coronado National Monument. A road cuts a straight orange-red line through the juniper trees and grassland below. That road, I am told by one of the border wall resisters I traveled with from Tuscson, marks the delineation between Mexico and the United States. Turning, she points to the south. I focus my eyes as she says, “See that black line? That’s the new border wall.”
Though there are sections of border wall that have been in place for decades, the desire of the current regime to build a complete wall which would stretch nearly 2000 miles from the Pacific Ocean in California to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas is unprecedented. If successful, such a wall would mark the first time in human history that a continent has been cut in half by a man-made structure.
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