Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it
So this park/border is near where i used to live and the reason it’s called “peace arch” is there’s a literal arch with a gate that’s left wide open. The inscription on the arch is “may these gates never close” as a symbol of the alliance between the US and Canada.
I used to think, as a kid, just weld it open.
The statement always read more like “please don’t close the gate, America” when i got older.
To be honest - I somehow missed the oddity and symbolism and of people getting arrested at a peace arch. It was only after looking at a Bluesky comment that I thought to myself “How did I miss that???”
So this park/border is near where i used to live and the reason it’s called “peace arch” is there’s a literal arch with a gate that’s left wide open. The inscription on the arch is “may these gates never close” as a symbol of the alliance between the US and Canada.
I used to think, as a kid, just weld it open.
The statement always read more like “please don’t close the gate, America” when i got older.
To be honest - I somehow missed the oddity and symbolism and of people getting arrested at a peace arch. It was only after looking at a Bluesky comment that I thought to myself “How did I miss that???”