observing san diego-tijuana urban life 
By Jill Holslin If anyone knows fences, it is a fence contractor. And when Keith Bloemendaal of Raleigh Fence Contractors, LLC learned how much the DHS has proposed to spend on the 2000-mile border fence to wall off the US from our neighbors to the south, he was shocked, and […]
From the SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE August 16, 2008 NO: It will destroy a relationship symbolized by Friendship Park By John Fanestil The Department of Homeland Security will erect a secondary fence across Friendship Park, eliminating public access to a historic place where for generations people from San Diego and […]
> Filmmaker to tell story of proposed border fence August 8, 2008 – 10:13PM By Laura Tillman/The Brownsville Herald Filmmaker Nat Stone has become addicted to telling the story of the border and the Rio Grande. When Stone embarked on a kayaking trip down the entire Rio Grande in 2004, […]
North County Times, 6 Aug 2008, By Edward Sifuentes A prominent immigrant rights activist was detained Tuesday for several hours by U.S. Border Patrol agents in San Diego for allegedly paying an illegal immigrant to cross the border. He was later released with no charges filed against him, a spokesman […]
UCSD Department of Communications video about the history of Border Field State Park, San Diego, California. scenes from June-July 2008. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRr7bt7-s8&hl=en&fs=1]
July 3, 2008, Tijuana- Today I’m walking with Dan along Avenida Internacional, the four-lane highway that runs along the border between Tijuana and San Diego, and I cringe as I feel the rush of speeding cars at my back, dragging on my body. I know we are far enough off […]
> By Jill Holslin SAN DIEGO-TIJUANA, 1 June 2008- The presence of border patrol surveillance, a force clearly intended to intimidate, couldn’t suppress our delight with the sparkling Pacific waves, sunny skies and fresh breezes in Border Field State Park. Nor could the aggressive militarization of the border that we […]
> By Jill Holslin SAN DIEGO, 26 May 2008- The scrub landscape around the border fence at the southern edge of San Diego county is raw from neglect and overuse. Turning off Dairy Mart Road onto a bumpy dirt path, I realized Paul’s Volvo wagon was never meant for this. […]