San Diego - Border Fencing That Honored The Dead Is Torn Down
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
By Jean Guerrero
Construction crews are tearing down a stretch of border fencing between San Diego and Tijuana that had become a symbol of the infrastructure's deadliness. They're replacing it with a taller barrier.
It's part of a 14-mile replacement project that the Trump administration initiated in June, starting near the Pacific Ocean.
Activists had placed about 2,000 white wooden crosses along the Mexican side of the fence near the Tijuana airport. The crosses commemorated people who died after the fence was first built in the late 1990s, forcing illegal immigration into the desert and other remote areas that were harsh and often deadly.
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