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Figure 31 Border walls across the globe

More disturbing is the re-imagining of the border as a site for passive aggressive political

factices via a mode of construction that swallows the border region while encroaching on the

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lands of the other. This is most noticeable when one of the cities/states/nations/countries is

more politically capable than the other.

Figure 31 Border walls across the globe

"The border wall as architecture is a well-timed re-examination of what the 650-mile bodily barrier that separates the United States of America and the Mexican States is and will be." It is each a protest towards the wall and a prediction approximately its future. The book takes readers on an adventure alongside a wall that cuts via a third country through a chain of propositions that propose the almost seven-hundred miles of wall is a possibility for financial and social improvement alongside the border that encourages its conceptual and bodily dismantling "America's Divided States (Flaherty 2010)

The border has always been an issue in the United States. The United States craves cheap

labour, tribes cling to what is left of their land, Mexico suffers from poverty, disagreements

erupt into gunfire, and the desert snatches weary travellers. The challenge to the border as a line

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