Border wall protester finishes 200-mile walk in Brownsville - Texas

“It wasn’t exactly a hero’s welcome, but the mayor joined him in walking the final mile.

Jay J. Johnson-Castro, 59, paced into this southernmost border town late Wednesday and finished his nearly 200-mile walk to protest Washington’s controversial plan to add 700 miles of new fence to the most vulnerable spots along the U.S.-Mexico border.”

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