One of the wildest and most delicate and beautiful places on the planet. This is the land I come from and the community that I claim as my own. We don't want a wall. We never did.
Some of my own older writing on this very topic: kcet.org/redefine/endan…
Many thanks, as ever, to the wonderful @canislatrans for being my KCET editor at the time and allowing me to write about topics such as these
By the way, I'm not just offering up the royal "we." Those of us closer to the reality of the U.S.-Mexico border deeply, profoundly oppose anything that keeps us separated (from 2016) pbs.org/newshour/natio…
The only reason Americans believe otherwise is because of the forty-year propaganda campaign waged by lobbyists of the #TantonNetwork

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