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    Demolition begins on border fence mural painted by children in Mexico

    Demolition begins on border mural painted by children in Mexico

    Construction workers bring down sections of a border mural at the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo courtesy of Gretchen Baer)

    A young boy plays soccer as construction vehicles begin demolishing a border fence in Naco, Mexico, featuring a mural painted by children. (Photo courtesy of Gretchen Baer)

    Studio Mariposa is located accross The Naco Port of Entry and is home of the Border Bedazzlers. (Photo by Charlene Santiago/Cronkite News)


    By Charlene Santiago | Cronkite News

    Wednesday, March 1, 2017

    PHOENIX — For the past two months, residents of Naco, Mexico, have seen construction vehicles along the border. On Tuesday, workers began bringing down part of the fence that features a one-mile mural that Mexican children have painted the past six years.

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    Children say goodbye to mural they painted on border fence

    “When I first heard about it (the demolition) I wasn’t ready to let go,” said Gretchen Baer, who helped organize the border mural. “Now that it’s actually happening it doesn’t hurt as much because Mariposa (where the kids meet now) is my new project. I already separated myself from the project when they said it was coming down. Mariposa is a new, vibrant project that the Naco people support.”

    Baer said she doesn’t agree with President Donald Trump’s proposed wall.


    “We don’t need the wall; we have a whole town,” Baer said. “We’re going to paint everything in Naco.”


    On Wednesday Baer said she predicts it will take some time to bring down the entire mural as workers remove two to three panels per day. According to Baer, the panels are being replaced with a temporary fence before setting the permanent barrier. Baer calls it a “prison-like” fencing.

    For six years children in Naco, Mexico, painted a mural on a border fence. On Tuesday demolition began on the fence – and the mural. (Photo by Charlene Santiago/Cronkite News)

    Three panels will be saved from the mural. One will be donated to Bisbee, and two will be given to Naco.

    One panel will be donated to Studio Mariposa, which sponsors the kids’ art group, Border Bedazzlers.

    Studio Mariposa is in Mexico, across from the Naco Port of Entry.


    Children have been attending weekly art workshops or “painting parties” in Studio Mariposa. The space was donated by Humanitarian Border Solutions.

    Volunteers worked on a mural outside the studio and decorated the inside as well.

    Gretchen Baer, Border Bedazzlers founder, and kids pose for a picture at border mural farewell party in January. (Photo by Charlene Santiago/Cronkite News)
    In January, not knowing when the mural would come down, the Border Bedazzlers hosted a small farewell party. It included cupcakes, and those in attendance snapped selfies at the fence.

    The mural featured various brightly colored images and messages including “Love transcends hate,” and “Somos un mundo” — We are one world. Another section featured the face of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, a 16-year-old resident of Nogales, Mexico, who was shot and killed when a U.S. Border Patrol agent fired into Mexico in 2012.

    Construction in Naco, Mexico, began in January, yards from the border fence painting. (Photo by Charlene Santiago/Cronkite News)

    The replacement structure is not part of the wall Trump has promised to build along the U.S.-Mexico border. Instead, it will be an upgrade planned four years ago. Construction on a 7.5-mile portion of a fence between Naco, Arizona, and Naco, Mexico, started in January. The new structure will be an 18-foot bollard fence similar to the one dividing Douglas and Agua Prieta, Mexico.


    The new fence will allow border patrol agents to see into Mexico and allow for “safer and more effective border security,” according to a media release from U.S. Customs Border Protection.

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    I'm sorry but that is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. Who would approve an ugly fence like that as a border wall for the United States? Trump's Wall must be beautiful, a great beautiful wall, with pretty landscaping. This is our money, this is our wall, this is our country and we don't want UGLY CRAP built in our name.
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    It looks like ghetto graffiti..... like Tijuana


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    Yeah, and that looks look a "ghetto fence", too. UGLY. I can't believe people thought building something as ugly as that in neighborhoods was appropriate or something that should be done in the name of the American People.

    I love that concrete wall with the look out towers, the picture Trump held up at one of his rallies that someone drew for him. That was beautiful. Nice. Very appropriate for our country to build.
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    Why don't they paint nice desert landscaping? They destroy and deface everything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beezer View Post
    Why don't they paint nice desert landscaping? They destroy and deface everything.


    Sadly, that's exactly what the illegal aliens did to Los Angeles....

    Tacky bright colored painted Mexican ghetto graffiti on all the buildings and Mariachi music blasting everywhere.


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    Families visit each other through the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico on February 22, 2015 in Tijuana, Mexico. (credit: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)

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    From left: Maria Fernández, the artist’s sister, and ASU student Raji Ganesan take a break after helping paint the border fence in Nogales, Sonora.




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    Artist Ana Teresa Fernández said the mural, which is painted Electra blue, gives the illusion that the sky has been brought down, erasing the border fence.
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    In this Nov. 17, 2008 file photo, a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle stands guard along the border fence with its concertino wire topping it, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File) — AP

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    Much better JD2. They can paint it something nicer.

    A solution to Judy's beautiful landscaping! Don't plant it...paint it pretty to blend in with the desert
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    Okay, I have a question. Since when is de-facing government property not a federal crime? The border is on United States soil and the de-facing of it is a federal crime!

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