Articles written by: Jill Holslin
>Friendship Park garners National and International Media Attention
> 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 […]
In the Borderlands
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>CONGRESSMAN HENRY CUELLAR ANNOUNCES CBP HALTS THREE BORDER FENCE SEGMENTS IN RIO GRANDE VALLEY
>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 […]
>Press Release: The No Border Wall Coalition Praises DHS Decision to Spare Three South Texas Communities
>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 […]
Good Cop, Bad Cop: Detention and Its Discontents
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, […]
Common Sense about the Fence
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 […]
OPINION: Expanding the border fence in the San Diego sector–San Diego Union-Tribune Op-Ed, Aug 16, 2006
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 […]
Mahmoud Darwish laid to rest with highest state honors today in Ramallah
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 […]
>More Border Stories
> 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, […]