I was almost there via Brownsville some 40 years ago.I for one will be sad that the wall will hide the beautiful town of Jaurez and the lovely cardboard shack architecture.
2 of us decided to go on a big driving tour. Ended up in Brownsville when we decided we would drive to Mexico City to check it out. For all you young uns, there was no internet and we didn't really know much about Mexico and how much poverty there was there and the other dangerous elements about. When we got to the border at Brownsville, driving a late model Camaro, we got educated by the Mexican border guards.
After initial chit chat on what we were up to (we had gone to Europe for 9 months and were doing this before starting University) we were asked if we had a gun? Ummm no, why would we have a gun? The guards chuckled and said no, you aren't going into Mexico driving this car etc,. They then gave us the facts of life about Mexico.
We then drove along the border and made our way to Flagstaff.
What astonished us was what we could see on the Mexican hillsides as we drove. Thousands of shacks dotted the landscape, all the way from Brownsville past Juarez until we finally turned up towards Flagstaff.
That was when we realized that what the Mexican Border guards warning was likely well founded.....
Congress voted on border wall in 2006, Hillary, Schumer, Feinstein voted Yes
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00262…
Bernie voted no http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll446.xml…
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/825916846989795328
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHjKBjM1ngw