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U of Arizona Students Put Up Barbed-Wire Border Wall On Campus « Student Activism

U of Arizona Students Put Up Barbed-Wire Border Wall On Campus « Student Activism

U of Arizona Students Put Up Barbed-Wire Border Wall On Campus

Students at the University of Arizona have installed a mock border fence, topped with barbed wire, in the middle of the campus.

The fence, which is seven feet tall and four hundred feet long, was installed by a coalition led by the UA chapter of No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization whose mission, according to the group, “is to end death and suffering on the U.S./Mexico border through civil initiative.”

The coalition that built the fence intend it as a protest not only of the wall at the US-Mexico border, but also of