(01-09) 04:00 PST Imperial Beach, San Diego County -- The half-acre plaza where throngs gather on weekends to pass kisses, tamales and communion wafers through a chain-link fence to Mexico is closing. The California State Parks Department confirmed Thursday that the Border Patrol is shutting Friendship Park to make way for a triple fence.
The Border Patrol told local authorities Tuesday that the area would be closed to the public, said Clay Phillips, superintendent of Border Field State Park, which surrounds the Friendship plaza.
From the Mexican side, visitors on Thursday saw that crews had already torn up cement. Some trees were gone.
Friendship Park, which separates Imperial Beach from Tijuana, Mexico, was dedicated by first lady Patricia Nixon in the 1970s as a symbol of binational goodwill. It is a federal enclave in the southwestern corner of the continental United States, accessible to pedestrians and motorists only by going through the 800-acre state park.
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