But O’Rourke’s record on border walls is complicated. Here, many people accept dozens of miles of existing walls as a fact of life, objecting mostly to structures so intrusive they suggest a war zone. “People in El Paso live with the border and the ambiguities and contradictions of the border,” said Josiah Heyman, director of the University of Texas at El Paso’s Center for Interamerican and Border Studies. Instead, O’Rourke more frequently complained of long wait times for cars crossing into El Paso from Juarez. “We have a lot of slats where you can still see through it,” he said of El Paso.

Source: National Post February 18, 2019 05:46 UTC