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As @POTUS reviews prototypes, high school students DREAM up the wall
NEW YORK — Suppose you had $18 billion to build or reinforce the border between the U.S. and Mexico. What kind of wall would you dream up?
Eashan Nirhoe, a visual artist and student photographer for The Edison Light, the award-winning student newspaper at Thomas A. Edison High School in Queens, New York, created a poster that visualizes the kind of wall he’d like to see. The work was submitted for Global Student Square’s “Students DREAM up the Wall” news contest.
“The illustration I created is a brick wall with many roses protruding from it,” Nirhoe writes. “My inspiration came from knowing that even though the wall may be built, it won’t stop the joint efforts of humanity.
“Plant life can be seen growing in the harshest environments including cracks in the concrete and the sides of buildings,” Nirshoe notes. “I related the rose to humans and the people who are opposing President Trump because uniting together we can stop him from doing such absurd actions. I hope people take away that even though Trump is our president he can still be stopped.”
President Trump landed in San Diego this morning and is heading to Otay Mesa, a port of entry south of San Diego, for a 50-minute visit to inspect prototypes of walls to be used to as new or reinforced structures along the 2,000-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico. The Customs and Border Protection Agency told Congress in January that it would request $18 billion for the first phase of the project, expected to take place over the next 10 years.
Do you have a vision for what a U.S.-Mexico border wall should look like? Read our guidelines, research and create your wall, and then submit it to our news contest. The top three entries will win $50 each and we’ll also boost and amplify your work on social media.
Questions? Ready to share your work? Contact us at submissions@globalstudentsquare.org.
—Video: U.S. Customs and Border Protection released aerial footage shot on Oct. 17 of the eight prototype border walls near the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. government work/
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