CNN reported that Harris and Pence will be separated by plexiglass during the October 7 debate proceedings But as I watched it with my own eyes, I saw that she was just a girl my age. Wearing a faded Mickey Mouse T-shirt and jean shorts that were rolled over on top but still looked like they might fall off her skinny waist. She had somehow gotten over a line of concrete ballasts and the chain-link fence stretching across the burnt-out field between Tijuana and San Diego. That rusty, mangled barricade that was supposed to keep people on the Tijuana side. It stood there as a scar. A reminder. A warning. Its sole purpose was to saystay out. you don’t belong here. had saved my life. I think a lot of young women experienced a similar awakening when Beyoncé made Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s definition of the word go viral back in 2014. yelled the crowd behind her in Tijuana. I could hear people chanting from behind the Wall in San Diego. It sounded like they were saying,Let her through! Let her through!