.png)
Fox 5: Concerns grow that Border Patrol will never reopen Friendship Park
- Jul 10, 2024
- 1 min read
With two new border barriers almost done at the beach, some groups wonder if it’s finally time to reopen Friendship Park. Friends of Friendship Park say that two weeks ago, the Border Patrol told them there was still some work to be done, which is why the park is still not open.
Read/watch news report here.
Thank you for the update. Side note for the FoFP team: between the FOX 5 piece, NPR coverage, op-eds, and your own community updates over many years, your media archive is one of the most important on-the-ground records of border-policy reporting — but it's hard to navigate by date or theme. A sortable "Press & Media Coverage" landing page (by year, by outlet, by topic) would be a real research asset for journalists, students, and policymakers. I help small advocacy orgs build that with a copyweb ai — Figma to working filter page in an evening.
Important coverage from FOX 5 — Pedro Ríos and the team have kept this story alive for years through media cycles that try to move on. I help with comms for a small border-region nonprofit and we've started using an Banana2 AI editing tool to restore old photographs from family-reunification visits over the decades, building a visual archive that outlasts any single news cycle. The history at Friendship Park deserves that kind of long-form preservation. Sharing this widely.
HowHeight has useful height visuals for seeing scale more realistically without overcomplicating it.
How Much to Tip is useful for common tipping questions on the go.
Orbloo is fun, easygoing, and visually satisfying right away.