Friendship Park

>La Boca de Tijuana
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>La Boca de Tijuana

>Cuando la boca del Rio runs into the ocean,when it rises onto the deltaand you hear its united tributaries undercut the sets of waves,when this Tijuana River meets this Pacific Ocean, its mouth says “I know both sides of the border.” Antes de la lectura en el faro,camino a la […]

Border Wall / Friendship Park

>Friendship Park Casualty of New Border Fence

>San Diego Channel 8, CBS News report on Friendship Park For Video, please click on title above. January 8, 2009 SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) — The Border Patrol will close a popular park on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean to make way for a triple fence along the Mexican […]

Border Wall / Friendship Park

>Senator Denise Ducheny Speaks Out Against Border Fence in Friendship Park

>San Diego Channel 9 KUSI Morning News, 9 Jan 2009 For VIDEO, click on title above SAN DIEGO | The federal government is in the process of erecting a triple fence that cuts through Friendship Park on the U.S./Mexico border. The park was often used as a gathering place for […]

Border Wall / Friendship Park

>Popular border spot won't be accessible

> San Diego Union-Tribuneby Leslie Berestein 2:00 a.m. January 9, 2009 SOUTH COUNTY — Frequent visitors to Border Field State Park, along with park officials, are expressing surprise and dismay over a sudden reversal of plans by U.S. Customs and Border Protection that will result in the permanent closing of […]

Border Wall / Friendship Park

Demolition of Friendship Park began Tuesday Jan 6th

>In spite of pressure from local and state elected leaders urging the Department of Homeland Security to open the decision-making process to public comment and review, DHS continues with the demolition of Friendship Park. This historic site, a gathering place for families on both sides of the border for generations, […]

Border Wall / Friendship Park

>Save Friendship Park Press Conference 29 Dec 2008

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Border Wall / Friendship Park / Smuggler's Gulch

Aide: Border Patrol to build border fence at park

Article published by SFGate.com, San Jose Mercury News, Monterey Herald, Modesto Bee By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press Writer Wednesday, January 7, 2009 7 January 2009 18:50 PST San Diego, CA (AP) The Border Patrol will close a popular park on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean to make way for […]

Border Wall / Friendship Park

Friendship Park's intended purpose is lost in fog of border war

Los Angeles Times by Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times staff writer SAN DIEGO, CA | There are just two weeks left in his presidency, but down in San Diego County the heavy machinery is grinding away at one last grand project from the administration of George W. Bush. As The […]

>Press Conference on Border Fence in San Diego
Border Wall / Friendship Park

>Press Conference on Border Fence in San Diego

> Federal, State, & Local Representatives United on Call to Save Friendship Park By Jill Holslin SAN DIEGO, CA | On Saturday, November 15, 2008, at 11 AM, federal, state, and local elected officials gathered at Friendship Park to call for an immediate halt to construction of fencing that places […]

Triple Border Fence Project Wins "Onion" Award for Worst Architecture in San Diego
Border Wall / Friendship Park / Tijuana Colonias

Triple Border Fence Project Wins "Onion" Award for Worst Architecture in San Diego

San Diego Daily Transcript “Orchids, Onions honors best, worst in recent crop of architecture” By MONICA UNHOLD 14 November 2008 SAN DIEGO, CA | On Thursday evening, architects honored condos, hospital facilities and theater restorations that have blossomed in the past few years as well as those that plain stink, […]