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> By Jill Holslin San Diego, CA | Friendship Park, a small and unassuming spot near a beach in San Diego-Tijuana, is suddenly getting national and international media attention. This half-acre plaza overlooking the beautiful shores of the Pacific ocean at the southmost corner of the continental United States is […]
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>Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar received notification today that Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has made a decision not to move forward this year on the construction of three proposed border fence segments in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector in Starr County , Texas ( Rio Grande […]
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 7, 2008 Contact: Scott Nicol (956) 532-5983 The No Border Wall Coalition hails the decision by the Department of Homeland Security to give the communities of Roma, Rio Grande City, and Los Ebanos a reprieve from border wall construction in 2008. It is our hope that […]
Are We Being Fair to the Border Patrol? by Jill Holslin SAN DIEGO-TIJUANA | On Thursday, Sept 18, 2008 Border Meetup Director Dan Watman was detained by the Border Patrol in Friendship Park, a small concrete plaza and public park located along the border fence in Border Field State Park, […]
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 […]
By Jill Holslin Identity Card Put it on record. I am an Arab. And the number of my card is fifty thousand. I have eight children And the ninth is due after summer. What’s there to be angry about? Put it on record. I am an Arab. Working with comrades […]
> 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 […]