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This Idea Started in 2009
Two California professors – Ronald Rael, an architecture professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Virginia San Fratello, an assistant professor at San José State University in California – came up with the idea to install seesaws at the United States-Mexico border wall to allow children in both countries to play with each other.
Originally called “Teetertotter Wall,” the two came up with the idea in 2009, but the idea finally came to fruition at an event on Monday in Sunland Park. The three bright pink see-saws stretch from the U.S. into Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
“One of the most incredible experiences of my and @vasfsf’s career bringing to life the conceptual drawings of the Teetertotter Wall from 2009 in an event filled with joy, excitement, and togetherness at the border wall,” Rael wrote on Instagram.
The wall became a way to connect children and adults on both sides.
The U.S-Mexican border has been the subject of controversy for some time now President Donald Trump spent years pushing for the construction of a border wall, and on Friday was cleared by the Supreme Court to use $2.5 billion counter-drug money from the Defense Department’s to build more than 100 miles of the wall.
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