Friendship Park is a little place of hope and engagement. It is a place where people can reunite with family members, and this is about to be come a part of the past. This small park just south of San Diego in a place called Imperial Beach, California. On this beach only a small fence represents the border between Mexico and the United States. Many people come to this park because they can interact with others on the opposite side of the fence. Randal C. Archibold describes freedom park as a place where "Families and friends, some of them unable to cross the border because of legal or immigration trouble, exchange kisses, tamales and news through small gaps in the tattered chain-link fence. " Friendship park brings happiness and joy to many peoples lives, at least for a short time, and it will no longer do so. The Department of Homeland Security wishes to beef up the old fence by building a new wall in this area. This has brought up a lot of controversy, and the federal and state governments are now negotiating a way to grant some access to this monument. I believe that this park is a place that bring a little joy to the lives of people that have very little in their lives. If this park is taken away from them and they cannot see their families, then it will make life very miserable for these people. It would be hard to be in that situation anyways, and this seems to make it that much worse. I think that they should just hire a few more men to patrol this section of fence. Honestly, I know it would be less expensive. I just think that it would be a terrible decision that would be regretted and protested for years to come.
Article By: Randal C. Archibold
Wed. October 22, 2008
The New York Times
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