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  • Author: Mary E. Mendoza

Fracturing landscapes: a history of fences on the U.S.-Mexico divide

In the short, roughly ten-mile stretch, I saw nearly twenty different fence designs made up of at least six different kinds of materials. In one place, there were four fences still standing; each fence representing some previous phase of construction and a stark reminder that Trump’s prototypes aren’t new at all, they are part of a long historical trend.

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