Separated Family Members Visit Friendship Park
Visit Friendship Park and the experience is significantly different from Las Playas. First of all, there’s no vendors where you can eat a taco or drink margaritas. Second of all, it’s heavily guarded...
View ArticleFamilies Separated Reunite Behind A Thick Fence
The main reason why people come to Friendship Park and why advocates exist is not because the fence separates the sea, but because the fence separates families. Each week on Saturdays and Sundays,...
View ArticleThe Fence In 2008
You may remember my interview with border activist and minister, John Fanestil. Each Sunday during his worship services at 1pm, he brings along pictures of what the border at Friendship Park looked...
View ArticleThe Double Fence
Friendship Park resides in the middle of Border Field State Park. To get there, you must drive, or usually walk because the area is prone to flooding with the least bit of rain. From the entrance of...
View ArticleEmpathy
Although on the Mexican side of the U.S. border, the word ‘Empathy’ was painted in English for several layered reasons. One of them: the word ‘path’ is within the English-language word, appropriate...
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