Seesaws on US-Mexico border wall allows children on both sides to play together

Architect and anti-border wall campaigner Ronald Rael has installed three pink seesaws across the US-Mexico border that allows families to play with each other through the wall.

Two California professors have seen their vision for a seesaw that allows children from the US and Mexico to play together become reality.

Custom-built seesaws have been installed in Sunland Park, New Mexico, where a slatted border fence separates it from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

VIDEO: 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 A section of the US-Mexico border has become a playground for families as they take turns on a seesaw called 'Sube y Baja' ('Go up and go down'), an installation protesting against President Trump's border wall pic.twitter.com/PGbzxUDpxJ

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Earlier this year I read an extract of architect Ronald Rael’s anti-border wall manifesto. Yesterday he & Virginia San Fratello (architect couple goals) realised an idea they had a decade ago – building a seesaw across the US-Mexico wall.

The book is called Borderwall as Architecture. The seesaw is modelled in there, as well as essays + ideas on border walls in history & future; protests, solutions, concepts. On the right is Rael yesterday.