The Park of Tears

In a patch of land between San Diego and Tijuana, loved ones reunite across a mesh fence, poking pinkies through the holes to touch

Suketu Mehta
Published in
11 min readJun 12, 2019

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FFor years, if you didn’t have papers or lacked the authorization to leave the United States without the right to come back, the only place along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border where you could meet your family…

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Suketu Mehta
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Author of THIS LAND IS OUR LAND: AN IMMIGRANT’S MANIFESTO. Associate Professor @nyu_journalism