La Puerta de Esperanza — the Door of Hope — seems permanently locked. The U.S. side of Friendship Park is still off-limits. Cross-border families can’t tearfully touch each other.

But two years after being closed to vehicle traffic, the road to ocean-view Border Field State Park is open.

Still, the site of emotional family reunions and Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ 2018 announcement of President Trump’s family separation policy is now a No Man’s Land.

Only Border Patrol cars are allowed in the strip of land between the inner and secondary border fences. An officer shouts “Read the signs!” at people taking pictures close to the inner bollards.

Times of San Diego visited the park Saturday afternoon, encountering a vacationing Australian family (unaware of the vehicle access debut) and

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