Berkeley Becomes First City To Divest From Border Wall Companies

Berkeley, California, has become the first U.S. city to yank investments and business dealings with any company aiming to work on PresidentDonald Trump’s Mexican border wall. The Berkeley City Council unanimously passed a resolutionthis week that divests the Bay Area city from any company that builds, designs, helps finance or does any other work to construct or maintain the $4.1 billion border wall planned by the president. Berkeley also will cease doing business with those companies. “Our ...