The Biden administration agreed to lower part of a border wall planned at Friendship Park, advocates said. For decades, visitors could easily converse and touch, but access gradually diminished from the U.S. over the last 15 years.
The Biden administration agreed to lower part of a border wall planned in the southwest corner of the continental United States, advocates said Thursday, dismissing the concession as a token gesture.
After public feedback, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agreed to lower a double wall for 60 feet, about the length of a tractor-trailer, said the Rev. John Fanestil of Friends of Friendship Park. In that section, the height will dip to 18 feet from 30 feet. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas approved the changes, Fanestil said he was told by CBP officials.
The decision comes a week after Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador thanked President Joe Biden for building "not even one meter of border wall," which is not entirely true. While Trump built hundreds of miles, Biden has pursued small projects in Texas' Rio Grande Valley; Yuma, Arizona; and San Diego.
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