Mexico plants border 'wall of life'
THE first of 400,000 trees are being planted to form a "green wall" in protest at the fence the US is building along the border between Mexicoand Texas The treeline will eventually stretch for 318 miles.
Coahuila Governor Humberto Moreira Valdes says "our wall is of life, and it competes with shame and hate."
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