Here's A Border Program That Actually Works

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Along the Rio Grande, a program designed to reduce cross-border wait times is shrinking the barrier between El Paso and Juarez.

EL PASO, Texas -- The serpentine Rio Grande still marks the border between north and south, though it's no longer the raging river it once was. Today a small trickle of water slides slowly through concrete channels, marking the boundary between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, the United States and Mexico.

The channels cage the river, preventing it from reverting to old habits of shifting course and blurring boundaries. The river has moved the official border repeatedly over time, diving deeper in the U.S. one year, returning south to Mexico the next, a symbol of an overlap the people of El Paso and Juarez know runs deep. The Paso del Norte bridge, one of the four links connecting the two cities, towers over the channeled river. Visible from the bridge is large graffiti scrawled on the channel's concrete walls. It reads: "Berlin Wall."

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We used to drive down to El Paso and walk across the bridge to Juarez with our kids.

Thanks to the media, everyone thinks we're nuts now because all of those nice people are villains today.

Our country has taken such a sad turn hating so many people. US/Mexico relations should be growing not deteriorating.