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Human wall on Mexico-US border in Trump protest

By AFP
18 February 2017   |   12:00 pm
Arm in arm and holding flowers, thousands of Mexicans formed a "human wall" on the border with the United States this Friday, in protest against President Donald Trump's plan to build a major barrier.

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