DC: New Mexico is progressing on its 20-mile border wall construction west of Santa Teresa, replacing old posts and rail barriers as part of President Donald Trump’s initiative to halt illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said more than 8,100 panels stretching over 11 miles were built as of Aug. 8, according to the Associated Press Friday.
“It’s going to be harder to get over, harder to get through, harder to get underneath,” Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Hull of the El Paso sector told the Albuquerque Journal on April 9. “It’s going to have a five-foot, anti-scaling plate at the top.”
The barrier will be as tall as 18 feet in some areas, depending on the location. The “wall of steel” was approved in 2017 and construction of the $73.3 million project began April 9, the Journal reported.
Environmentalists sued over the construction because they said the wall would block migration patterns of wildlife, the AP reported March 22. Mexican gray wolves, Aplomado falcons and kit foxes are among the wildlife creatures that inhabit the area. more
Ummmm, I am pretty sure the falcons can “leap” the 18′ required and who the hell wants illegal foxes and wolves. Looks like skinny illegals can get through it!
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
“As high as 18 feet in some areas”?
The entire wall should be AT LEAST 18 feet in ALL areas!
my first thought: grappling hook (frankly, only for the fittest of ‘dreamers’)
… I go more w/ … ‘Flaming Wall of Death’
…or snipers, leaving the bodies exposed for all to see and be warned by…
Should have started in 1960.
Concrete 30′ with stainless steel
razor wire.
Back in the late 80s I moved to Ft Lauderdale in a condo I thought the place was good it had a 8 foot wall all around it but the riff raff were getting over it .I come home one day and the whole thing had razor wire problem solved it looked like a prison though.