A group of students at a western North Carolina high school built a wall made of boxes and blocked access to a common area, and their Latino classmates are upset.
The students were allowed into McDowell High School, about 100 miles northwest of Charlotte, on Wednesday to perform a prank as a teacher supervised them.A photo of the wall with about 30 students standing in front of it was shared on Instagram and captioned, ‘We built the wall first.’
Principal Edwin Spivey says one of the kids wanted to put a Donald Trump logo on it and was told he couldn’t do that. The wall was taken down before classes began on Thursday. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has promised to build a wall along the US-Mexico border if he gets elected.
He said in a June 2015 speech announcing his candidacy: ‘I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively, I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.’
At the time, he also said: ‘When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. ‘They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. ‘They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. ‘They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.’