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Walls Divide and Break Us, Both in the U.S. and Palestine
May 27, 2021
Left, the West Bank separation wall pictured in Abu Dis, a Palestinian town in Jerusalem. Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images.
Right, the U.S.-Mexico border wall seen near Nogales, Arizona. Photo by Yuko Smith/Getty Images.
On May 6, I approached Campo, the tiny California border town at the southern end of the Pacific Crest Trail, just before dawn on my 50th birthday. A helicopter chopped through the sky overhead as Border Patrol vehicles passed on nearby roads. The 2,650-mile trail had taken me through some of the most beautiful wilderness on Turtle Island. Yet now, as I completed the trek, a monstrous structure loomed directly in front of me: the U.S.-Mexico border wall. ....

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