Work halted on border wall with seafront park in peril

The Biden administration agreed to pause plans for a double border wall that critics say would effectively destroy a 51-year-old oceanfront park that symbolises friendship between the US and Mexico. Chris Magnus, the US Customs and Border Protection commissioner, said he wanted to hear community concerns before settling on a wall design for Friendship Park, which then-first lady Pat Nixon inaugurated in 1971. For decades, visitors to the park between San Diego and Tijuana could easily gather but access gradually diminished from the US over the past 15 years.