<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mexican officials installed a remnant of the Berlin wall near the U.S. southern border last month to teach &#8220;a lesson&#8221; about knocking down walls and building bridges.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The historic concrete slab right was placed next to the border wall in Tijuana – across from San Diego – with a message that seemed to advocate for allowing more illegal immigrants refuge in the United States. The move comes as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/us/politics/migrant-families-border-biden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record numbers</a> of families crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in August and as critics say President Joe Biden’s immigration policies have caused the “<a href="https://oversight.house.gov/landing/bidens-border-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden Border Crisis</a>.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” a plaque by the base of the Berlin Wall relic <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/mexico-places-piece-berlin-wall-near-us-border-may-this-be-lesson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Montserrat Caballero, the mayor of Tijuana, Mexico, and Marcelo Ebrard, a former Mexican foreign secretary, are the two individuals behind its placement, according to Fox News. Caballero is the one who penned the open-borders message, the outlet reports. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In mid-August, after a ceremony unveiling the remnant of the Berlin wall, Caballero posted, “We are a government that believes more in building bridges, than walls that are useless,” according to a translated version of her Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv5lWtDufcZ/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los Angeles-based producer Marcos Cline-Marquez helped bring the 3-ton piece of wall to Friendship Park, San Diego-based KPBS <a href="https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2023/08/21/part-of-berlin-wall-finds-new-home-in-tijuana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in August. Initially, the plan was reportedly to present it to President Donald Trump while he was still in office, but the White House declined. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You draw parallels between the Berlin Wall, a wall that was built to divide not protect, and the wall on our southern border,” Cline-Marquez said. Caballero had similar sentiments, acknowledging that while the “social and political conflict is different than the Berlin Wall” it’s still “a wall at the end of the day.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caballero did concede that the U.S. has a right to enforce its border, even as she claimed the border wall represents “violence,” “family separation,” and “division.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Mexican officials are denouncing the wall and even some Americans are advocating for open borders, the U.S. arrested 91,000 illegal immigrants who crossed the border as families in August – a record high, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/us/politics/migrant-families-border-biden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times. Many are released into the U.S. awaiting court dates. In July, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 183,503 encounters with illegal immigrants, Fox News reported. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since President Biden took office in 2021, at least 6.2 million illegal immigrant encounters have been recorded – resulting in more than two million migrants being released into the U.S., <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/increased-illegal-immigration-brings-increased-crime-almost-23-federal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Heritage Foundation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite signing an executive order stopping the construction of a new border wall, Biden is finishing small projects that had previously been contracted out. This includes replacing the border wall on the Tijuana-San Diego section, the Associated Press <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/03/berlin-wall-relic-mexico-border-as-biden-adds-barriers-00113844" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many pieces of the Berlin Wall have been placed in various locations across the world, including hotels, schools, and parks, the outlet notes.</span></p>

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