California campsite at foot of border wall takes in homeless farmworkers
The Border Wall
by: Salvador Rivera
Posted: Mar 15, 2021 / 04:39 PM GMT-0600 / Updated: Mar 15, 2021 / 07:13 PM GMT-0600
CALEXICO, Calif. (Border Report) — Calexico Council member Raul Ureña is encouraging his city to set up two permanent campsites on city property to house farmworkers and the homeless.
The city, located about 120 miles east of San Diego on the southern border, had been supporting a site where about a dozen individuals have been living for the last three months. It sits at the corner of First Street and Andrade Avenue just north of the border barrier.
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The campsite was set up by a local representative of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights on a city-owned parcel.
It consists of about a dozen tents and according to Ureña will remain in place until the federal government decides its fate.
Recently, the city of Calexico sold the land to the federal government, and, legally, it doesn’t control it anymore.
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