‘Desecration’: Biden administration to expand walls at historic border meeting point

For half a century, families living on both sides of the border have reunited at Friendship Park. Now 30ft walls threaten the experience

Dan Watman had travelled an hour and a half to end up just 200ft from his own home.

Watman had come to the American side of Friendship Park, a binational park on the western end of the US-Mexico border where for decades families have met to connect with relatives, to talk about the local native flora in the public garden he runs there.