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He had been in a bad way since his oldest son was killed in a gang shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went into a depression,\" he says. \"I lost my job and everything, so I didn't have nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because his citizenship application never went through, Cardenas was deported to Mexico after serving 10 years in federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got deported I didn’t even know where I was,\" Cardenas says. He hadn't lived in Mexico since he left when he was seven years old, and he spoke little Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardenas says he was deported to somewhere near the U.S.-Texas border, far from his birthplace in southern Mexico town of Tecomán in the state of Colima. 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Separated families come here on weekends to see each other. (Erika Aguilar/KQED News) \u003ccite>(Erika Aguilar/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The life out there and the life in here is totally different,\" he says of living in Mexico. \"They do kind of make fun of us because we don’t speak the language. They call us \u003cem>pochos\u003c/em> sometimes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says Tijuana is almost like living in the United States because there are many Americans there, but there's one big difference: Cardenas can't see his family, who lives just across the border in San Diego, his home of more than 50 years. Just across that border are great grandkids he's never met, his two daughters and a son who also served in the U.S. military in Kosovo and Iraq, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes he wakes up and he goes crazy,\" Cardenas says of his son. \"He thinks he’s out there still, so someone needs to be there to kind of calm him down and stuff. And that hurts me because I can’t do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardenas says one of his grandsons just joined the military, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It worries me because you never know what’s going to happen, and you can’t do nothing here,\" he says. \"All you can do is just hope that everything goes okay and that’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cardenas isn't just sitting around and hoping. He's fighting to get back to the country he and his family have served for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's rallied, marched and met with California politicians \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/VeteransWithoutBorders/videos/911620425649261/\">as part of a group of deported veterans lobbying the government to allow them to return to the U.S.\u003c/a> based on their military service. His group painted a section of the border fence in Tijuana red, white and blue with the names of deported veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Cardenas says there is one other way deported veterans like him can eventually get back to the United States. Veterans who leave active military duty with an honorable discharge are\u003ca href=\"https://www.cem.va.gov/cem/burial_benefits/eligible.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> eligible for a burial spot\u003c/a> in a Veterans Administration national cemetery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629940 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Cardenas, 67, was born in Colima, Texas and brought by his parents to San Diego when he was seven years old. He served seven years in the U.S. military and was deported in 2009 for a drug conviction. \"Sometimes they ask how can they deport a veteran, but they do,\" he said. (Erika Aguilar/KQED News) \u003ccite>(Erika Aguilar/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>The International Women’s Media Foundation supported Erika Aguilar's reporting from Tijuana, Mexico as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iwmf.org/programs/adelante/about-adelante/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adelante Latin America Reporting Initiative.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went into a depression,\" he says. \"I lost my job and everything, so I didn't have nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because his citizenship application never went through, Cardenas was deported to Mexico after serving 10 years in federal prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got deported I didn’t even know where I was,\" Cardenas says. He hadn't lived in Mexico since he left when he was seven years old, and he spoke little Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardenas says he was deported to somewhere near the U.S.-Texas border, far from his birthplace in southern Mexico town of Tecomán in the state of Colima. He made his way to Playas de Tijuana, where he's been living alone, along with many other deported U.S. veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629939 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0160-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0160-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0160-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0160-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0160-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0160-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0160-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0160-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0160-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0160-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the U.S.-Mexico border fence at Friendship Park in Tijuana that divides California from Mexico. Separated families come here on weekends to see each other. (Erika Aguilar/KQED News) \u003ccite>(Erika Aguilar/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The life out there and the life in here is totally different,\" he says of living in Mexico. \"They do kind of make fun of us because we don’t speak the language. They call us \u003cem>pochos\u003c/em> sometimes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says Tijuana is almost like living in the United States because there are many Americans there, but there's one big difference: Cardenas can't see his family, who lives just across the border in San Diego, his home of more than 50 years. Just across that border are great grandkids he's never met, his two daughters and a son who also served in the U.S. military in Kosovo and Iraq, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes he wakes up and he goes crazy,\" Cardenas says of his son. \"He thinks he’s out there still, so someone needs to be there to kind of calm him down and stuff. And that hurts me because I can’t do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardenas says one of his grandsons just joined the military, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It worries me because you never know what’s going to happen, and you can’t do nothing here,\" he says. \"All you can do is just hope that everything goes okay and that’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cardenas isn't just sitting around and hoping. He's fighting to get back to the country he and his family have served for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's rallied, marched and met with California politicians \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/VeteransWithoutBorders/videos/911620425649261/\">as part of a group of deported veterans lobbying the government to allow them to return to the U.S.\u003c/a> based on their military service. His group painted a section of the border fence in Tijuana red, white and blue with the names of deported veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Cardenas says there is one other way deported veterans like him can eventually get back to the United States. Veterans who leave active military duty with an honorable discharge are\u003ca href=\"https://www.cem.va.gov/cem/burial_benefits/eligible.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> eligible for a burial spot\u003c/a> in a Veterans Administration national cemetery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629940 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0162-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Cardenas, 67, was born in Colima, Texas and brought by his parents to San Diego when he was seven years old. He served seven years in the U.S. military and was deported in 2009 for a drug conviction. \"Sometimes they ask how can they deport a veteran, but they do,\" he said. (Erika Aguilar/KQED News) \u003ccite>(Erika Aguilar/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"textbox\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>The International Women’s Media Foundation supported Erika Aguilar's reporting from Tijuana, Mexico as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iwmf.org/programs/adelante/about-adelante/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adelante Latin America Reporting Initiative.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "30-Foot Border Wall Prototypes Erected in San Diego Borderlands",
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"content": "\u003cp>Construction crews are erecting eight looming prototypes of President Trump's border wall in a remote section of the San Diego borderlands. Four are solid concrete; four are made of steel and concrete; one is topped with spikes. They all approach 30 feet in height. Customs and Border Protection is paying $20 million to six construction companies from Mississippi, Maryland, Alabama, Texas and Arizona. Crews in white hardhats operating cranes and forklifts are expected to complete the models by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the sections of wall are finished, CBP -- parent agency of the Border Patrol -- will evaluate them for three criteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want a better barrier. One that is hard to scale, hard to penetrate and hard to tunnel under,\" says Roy Villareal, chief of the San Diego Border Patrol sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're hoping innovation from private industry combined with our experience generates the next evolution of border security infrastructure,\" he continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/02-border-wall-prototype-d4636f6fec94d0d8a4dda76f07471e26a9be3e06-s800-c85-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624548\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/02-border-wall-prototype-d4636f6fec94d0d8a4dda76f07471e26a9be3e06-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/02-border-wall-prototype-d4636f6fec94d0d8a4dda76f07471e26a9be3e06-s800-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/02-border-wall-prototype-d4636f6fec94d0d8a4dda76f07471e26a9be3e06-s800-c85-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/02-border-wall-prototype-d4636f6fec94d0d8a4dda76f07471e26a9be3e06-s800-c85-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/02-border-wall-prototype-d4636f6fec94d0d8a4dda76f07471e26a9be3e06-s800-c85-520x389.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Rodriguez and her daughter Melanie stand in a structure in Tijuana, Mexico, with a view of border wall prototypes under construction. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About a half-dozen undocumented immigrants have been apprehended in the middle of the construction since the concrete slabs started going up. Most of them hopped over the 10-foot, Vietnam-era landing mats that currently serve as the primary border fence. The Border Patrol says, typically, it picks up about 70 illegal crossers in the entire San Diego sector every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the mockups are massive, it's anybody's guess whether they'll ever get built. Trump's border wall is opposed by congressional Democrats, as well as most of California's and San Diego's leadership. But they're certainly getting lots of press. Every day, border agents in crisp green uniforms shuttle in news crews from as far away as the Czech Republic and the Netherlands to shoot video of the busy construction site just east of the Otay Mesa port of entry. The backdrops: south of the prototypes is a dusty Tijuana industrial zone; to the north are the rugged Otay Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/05-border-wall-prototype-a5d2d790e55ea7eec38a2cf685d76658c5cb1e7a-1-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624544\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Competitors who are hoping to gain approval to build the border wall have until the end of the month to complete their work. \u003ccite>(Bill Wechter for NPR )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The real issue with building a border wall is what the Congress does, not what the contractors do ... The price tag on this is enormous,\" says\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Doris Meissner, a former immigration commissioner and now a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624545\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/04-border-wall-prototype-3e59cf9d84cc491f299e78a4ac6da118926b2b6d-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11624545\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"We want a better barrier. One that is hard to scale, hard to penetrate and hard to tunnel under,\" says Roy Villareal, chief of the San Diego Border Patrol sector. \u003ccite>(NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CBP expected the prototypes to spark big protests similar to the crowds that massed at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota last year decrying the pipeline. Officials even set aside a \"free speech zone\" and planned contingencies if trouble broke out. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Construction crews are erecting eight looming prototypes of President Trump's border wall in a remote section of the San Diego borderlands. Four are solid concrete; four are made of steel and concrete; one is topped with spikes. They all approach 30 feet in height. Customs and Border Protection is paying $20 million to six construction companies from Mississippi, Maryland, Alabama, Texas and Arizona. Crews in white hardhats operating cranes and forklifts are expected to complete the models by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the sections of wall are finished, CBP -- parent agency of the Border Patrol -- will evaluate them for three criteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want a better barrier. One that is hard to scale, hard to penetrate and hard to tunnel under,\" says Roy Villareal, chief of the San Diego Border Patrol sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're hoping innovation from private industry combined with our experience generates the next evolution of border security infrastructure,\" he continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/02-border-wall-prototype-d4636f6fec94d0d8a4dda76f07471e26a9be3e06-s800-c85-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624548\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/02-border-wall-prototype-d4636f6fec94d0d8a4dda76f07471e26a9be3e06-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/02-border-wall-prototype-d4636f6fec94d0d8a4dda76f07471e26a9be3e06-s800-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/02-border-wall-prototype-d4636f6fec94d0d8a4dda76f07471e26a9be3e06-s800-c85-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/02-border-wall-prototype-d4636f6fec94d0d8a4dda76f07471e26a9be3e06-s800-c85-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/02-border-wall-prototype-d4636f6fec94d0d8a4dda76f07471e26a9be3e06-s800-c85-520x389.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aurelia Rodriguez and her daughter Melanie stand in a structure in Tijuana, Mexico, with a view of border wall prototypes under construction. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About a half-dozen undocumented immigrants have been apprehended in the middle of the construction since the concrete slabs started going up. Most of them hopped over the 10-foot, Vietnam-era landing mats that currently serve as the primary border fence. The Border Patrol says, typically, it picks up about 70 illegal crossers in the entire San Diego sector every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The backdrops: south of the prototypes is a dusty Tijuana industrial zone; to the north are the rugged Otay Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/05-border-wall-prototype-a5d2d790e55ea7eec38a2cf685d76658c5cb1e7a-1-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624544\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Competitors who are hoping to gain approval to build the border wall have until the end of the month to complete their work. \u003ccite>(Bill Wechter for NPR )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The real issue with building a border wall is what the Congress does, not what the contractors do ... 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The administrative program, implemented by President Barack Obama in 2012, temporarily protected young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children from deportation if they met certain requirements. 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