Dear colleagues – Please see the letter at the link in the email below and consider signing your organization on. Defenders has signed on. The letter is to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas asking him to halt current plans to build 30 foot walls at Friendship Park in CA on the U.S. Mexico border. As the paragraph below from the letter describing the park says:
“Friendship Park is a location of great historical and cultural significance. The monument at its center was established to symbolize the “relations of peace and friendship” that were described in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo as the foundation of relations between the United States and Mexico. In her historic 1971 visit to inaugurate the surrounding area as California’s Border Field State Park, then-First Lady Pat Nixon expressed the hope that someday this location would become “International Friendship Park.” The proposed action would represent an abandonment of these noble intentions.”
As a reminder, similar to other border wall construction, this construction would be done under the waiver of laws that was invoked under the REAL ID Act by the Trump administration. I have copied Dan Watman who works with Save Friendship Park if you have any questions. Again, please consider signing on.
Thanks, Mary Beth
Mary Beth Beetham (She/Her)
Director of Legislative Affairs
1130 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036
TEL: 202.772.0231 FAX: 202.682.1331
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From: bordercoalition@googlegroups.com <bordercoalition@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Daniel Watman
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 12:18 PM
To: DCNoBorderWallCoalition <bordercoalition@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [bordercoalition] Saving Friendship Park organizational Sign on letter
Hola amigxs,
We are getting great support to save Friendship park. We just released our organizational sign-on letter if your org is so inclined.
Please let me know if you have any questions and if you are interested in learning other ways to help out.
Thank you for your solidarity in saving friendship at our border!
saludos, Dan
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