Border Patrol Wants to Fence Off a Park

This is one of the most hated sights for the United States Border Patrol. It is Border Field State Park in California. In the foreground is the Tijuana River Estuary, which is in the United States. In the background is the city of Tijuana, Mexico.
Part of the park, right along the border, is Friendship Park. In times gone by it was a friendly place where people from both nations could gather. In the early days there was no fence and Americans and Mexicans intermingled freely. Of course, that concept was despised by the jingoists in Washington DC.
So a fence was built right through the small obelisk that has stood on that site since 1851. That has not stopped people from gathering there so the Department of Homeland Security has devised a solution to this persistent friendliness.

DHS plans to obliterate Friendship Park with a triple fence structure over 120 feet wide. No more pizza parties. No more sharing communion across the border. The border will look more like the Berlin Wall and have the same purpose, to keep people permanently separate.

Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association on the issue