Landscape is changing along U.S-Mexico border in California

 
By The Associated Press
Published: February 22, 2009

IMPERIAL SAND DUNES, Calif. — Every weekend he can, Gene Elwell heads to the desert and races his buggy over the largest sand dunes in the U.S.

Nearly 200 miles west, on California’s Pacific shores, the Rev. John Fanestil spends every Sunday at Friendship Park , where people on both sides of the U.S.- Mexico border touch hands and talk through holes in a chain-link fence.

For decades, the du...


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