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The United States-Mexico barrier



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The United States-Mexico barrier, also known as the Texas border wall or Texas border fence, is located on both urban and uninhabited sections of the 1.951 U.S-Mexican border, including San Diego, California and El Paso, Texas. As of August 2008, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had built 190 miles of pedestrian border fence and 154.3 miles of vehicle border fence, for a total of 344.3 miles of fence. The border fence is not one continuous structure but rather a grouping of short physical walls secured in between with a system of sensors and cameras monitored by Border Patrol agents.



The Communards' Wall at the Père Lachaise cemetery is where, on 28 May 1871, one-hundred forty-seven fédérés, combatants of the Paris Commune, were shot and thrown in an open trench at the foot of the wall. To the French left the wall became the symbol of the people's struggle for their liberty and ideals.



Pablo Neruda's Fence still stands at Isla Negra, Chile, long after the poet's 1973 death. It was built to keep his dogs from chasing sheep, and has become a message board, a shrine. On July 12, his birthday, people visit and pin paper messages to the wooden slats of the fence, carve words of love into posts, scrawl lines in charcoal that will be washed away and replaced with new messages, new prayers. A friend oif his wrote: "There is not a scrap of the wood not written on. They all address him as though he were alive. With pencils or nail-points, each and all of them find a particular way of saying Thank you."




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