If you think building a wall is a good idea, please come see what one actually looks like and talk to people on both sides of the wall.
Visit Jacumba Springs, CA, for instance, with its lovely natural spring and the remnants of a spa town, renowned for its healing waters. See how in the midst of this wide open beautiful desert landscape, there is a barrier, an ugly scar destroying the continuity of the land, blocking the free movement of beings. It feels like a violation, See how it strangles and distorts communities on both sides of the wall, creating poverty and addiction and suspicion and fear and isolating people, limiting their options. Imagine what it was like when there was an open border and people crossed freely back and forth, sharing cultures and enlivening one another and creating a robust economy.
Visit an actual wall. Talk to actual people. Feel what such a wall does to the land, the people, the beings who live on the land, and to the heart of this country.
Visit Jacumba Springs, CA, for instance, with its lovely natural spring and the remnants of a spa town, renowned for its healing waters. See how in the midst of this wide open beautiful desert landscape, there is a barrier, an ugly scar destroying the continuity of the land, blocking the free movement of beings. It feels like a violation, See how it strangles and distorts communities on both sides of the wall, creating poverty and addiction and suspicion and fear and isolating people, limiting their options. Imagine what it was like when there was an open border and people crossed freely back and forth, sharing cultures and enlivening one another and creating a robust economy.
Visit an actual wall. Talk to actual people. Feel what such a wall does to the land, the people, the beings who live on the land, and to the heart of this country.
