Short excerpt only due to restrictions on AP-sourced stories.
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The area targeted has rampant border violations. In 2016 the Border Patrol in this sector apprehended more than 25,000 illegal immigrants trying to enter the country and seized around 67,000 pounds of marijuana. Environmentalists are threatening to sue to stop the barriers saying "the border wall is a humanitarian and environmental disaster, and it won’t do anything to stop illegal drug or human smuggling.”
1 posted on
01/22/2018 2:43:59 PM PST by
CedarDave
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2 posted on
01/22/2018 2:45:06 PM PST by
CedarDave
(If Lea County, New Mexico was a state, we would be #7 in US crude oil production [NM is #3].)
To: CedarDave
3 posted on
01/22/2018 2:46:28 PM PST by
M Kehoe
To: CedarDave
The wall needs to be taller!
4 posted on
01/22/2018 2:48:08 PM PST by
Bobalu
(12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
To: CedarDave
” Bollard walls are made up of sturdy, vertical posts that are spaced to provide visibility to the other side but are difficult to walk through”
Why would i care about making sure Mexicans can look through the wall and stare at us?
6 posted on
01/22/2018 2:52:51 PM PST by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: CedarDave
Aerial pics seem to indicated that there is only a significant fence for a mile or so west of the crossing.
8 posted on
01/22/2018 3:12:53 PM PST by
Paladin2
To: CedarDave
My only objections to the Wall would include the lack of fixed weapons and a minefield.
14 posted on
01/22/2018 4:17:15 PM PST by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: CedarDave
If each alternate bollard were electrified with about 5,000 volts (low current as in a taser so as not to kill anyone), this might be effective...
15 posted on
01/22/2018 4:20:26 PM PST by
babygene
(hMake America Great Again)
To: CedarDave
Back in the early 70s I’d ride my motorcycle from El Paso into New Mexico and ride along the border. The border was marked with a four-wire barbed-wire fence and obelisk border markers every mile or so. There was an unmanned gate and a road leading into Mexico. This is pretty much the same area mentioned in the article. I guess I wouldn’t be able to ride there now.
16 posted on
01/22/2018 4:35:19 PM PST by
hanamizu
To: CedarDave
...replace existing vehicle barriers...These work.
17 posted on
01/22/2018 4:41:30 PM PST by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
To: CedarDave
Replace them with what welcome signs and bus stops?
18 posted on
01/22/2018 5:15:45 PM PST by
Kartographer
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