A 65-foot portrait of a toddler is sparking immigration debate at the U.S.-Mexico border wall

A Border Patrol vehicle drives in front of a mural in Tecate, Mexico, just beyond a border structure Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in Tecate, Calif.
(Image credit: Gregory Bull/The Associated Press)

A French artist known as JR has placed a giant, cut-out mural of a toddler overlooking the U.S.-Mexico border wall near San Diego, California. The image of the little boy is 65 feet tall, and JR says it is meant to provoke conversation about immigration policy.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.