According to what I was told when I was down at the camp the border wall was built using material left over from the 1991 Gulf War. At the top of the ridge adjacent to our campsite was a section of border wall that was painted with the words: Team Engineers - Builders of the Border - California National Guard.

The border wall has gaps in certain places and in areas where there is rugged landscape or large rocks, there is no wall at all.

The first thing that struck me about the border was the immediacy of it. I drove south and then east for three hours from Los Angeles to the camp region south of Campo, CA but because of a wall slicing across the earth the roads ended.

The wall is meant to keep the people on one side from going to the other side. It is the manifestation of an arbitrary line on a map that keeps families apart and forces people to risk their lives in order to make it to the other side for the purposes of survival.

If amnesty is the act of the rulers pardoning the injustices they have committed then the border is the biggest injustice of all.