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Posted on 04/09/2018 10:48:22 AM PDT by jazusamo
Homeland Security began building a border wall in New Mexico on Monday, moving to replace vehicle barriers with a modern fence that will deter pedestrians attempting to cross in the remove desert west of El Paso.
The 20-mile project has been on the books for some time and the contract was awarded Jan. 22, meaning it was finalized before the recent fight over border wall money in the new 2018 spending bill.
But the administration says it wouldn’t have been built but for President Trump’s push for more border wall.
“We need effective barriers to deny the entry of illegal aliens and contraband,” said Aaron A. Hull, chief patrol agent for the El Paso Sector of the Border Patrol. “Our agents know that a balance of physical infrastructure, technology and personnel is key to securing the border and keeping our communities safe.”
The fence will begin just west of the Santa Teresa port of entry and run 20 miles west.
It will run between 18 and 30 feet high, and will be bollard-style construction, giving agents the ability to see through to Mexico so they have awareness of what’s going on, and can spot migrants or smugglers preparing for an attempt to jump the border. A see-thru design also helps agents spot and avoid potential ambushes by rock-throwers, which accounts for a large number of injuries to agents.
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I used to ride my dirt bike out of El Paso into NM and ride along the border. It was a four-wire barbed-wire fence with a boundary marker every mile. Never saw a soul. There was a gate that was padlocked but little sign that it was used. But this was a long time ago.
Thank you Mr. President. It’s a start.
Build that fence!
Amen to that, it’s a start in a area that direly needs it.
Even with the fence built for 20 miles, is is simply a longer hike out to where the barrier to crossing may be a little less formidable. A hike through arid lands that may have rattlesnakes and no refreshment stops, to be sure, but only a momentary pause for somebody who has already traveled hundreds or even thousands of miles, much of it on foot.
And there is always the option of burrowing beneath. Got to be careful about that emergence point, however.
Even with the fence built for 20 miles, is is simply a longer hike out to where the barrier to crossing may be a little less formidable. A hike through arid lands that may have rattlesnakes and no refreshment stops, to be sure, but only a momentary pause for somebody who has already traveled hundreds or even thousands of miles, much of it on foot.
And there is always the option of burrowing beneath. Got to be careful about that emergence point, however.
I would imagine the AZ / Ca border gets most of the traffic?
Would love to see California / Mexico border get walled.
A fence?
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The result was 354 miles of border protected by a pedestrian fence and 300 miles protected by vehicle barriers.
Now the Trump administration is going back to replace some of the vehicle barriers with the most up-to-date fencing.
The project will not use any of the designs Mr. Trump ordered last year."
Doncha hate it when when your political opponent makes you do what you said you wanted to do 10 years ago, but some how you want something completely different now?
Maybe do tall ‘drone nests’ every so often, to hold and protect special border drones while charging and during bad weather. With comm’s for remotely monitoring it and ir cams for watching the fence.
F@(%ing politicians. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM !
I love how the structure pictured in the article isn’t even what’s being erected.
I am so tired of this wall horsecrap.
If you look at this border on Google Earth, the further west you go the less there is. As the border leaves the rio Grande, in mexico there is vast nothingness.
To cross the border into the USA, there is no good place to start and no good place to go once the border is crossed.
Auto-correct fail in the first sentence - appears the word should have been “remote.”
Article...18 to 30 foot Bollard-style construction.
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RE: The fence will begin just west of the Santa Teresa port of entry and run 20 miles west.
Well, there ya go, it’s not a Wall, it’s a freaking FENCE.
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