Mexicans Protest Border Fence With Trees

Treeline Will Stretch 318 Miles Between Mexico, Texas

POSTED: 8:44 am EDT June 28, 2008



Mexican immigrants carrying bottles of water attempt to cross the Mexico-U.S. border illegally from Sasabe, in the state of Sonora into the Arizona desert in the United States, April 2006.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico -- The first of 400,000 trees are being planted in northern Mexico to form a "green wall" along the border.

It's a protest against the huge fence the United States is building along the border.

The treeline will eventually stretch for 318 miles along the border between Mexico and Texas.

The governor of the Mexican border state said the trees will be a "wall of life" in contrast to what he said is the U.S. wall of "shame and hate."

Washington said the border fence is critical to U.S. security. Critics said it fuels animosity between the two countries and raises environmental and private property concerns.

The mayor of a Texas border town attended Friday's tree planting in the town of Piedras Negras. Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster opposes the ongoing construction of 670 miles of border fence.


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