Posted on 03/12/2021 11:55:50 PM PST by blueplum
During the month of February, the United States experienced a 28% increase in attempted crossings at the Southwest border. Of the more than 100,000 people who attempted to cross the border, nearly 30,000 were unaccompanied children.
Newsweek got an inside look at the state of the U.S.-Mexico border through the eyes of Public Affairs Officers Justin Castrejon and Jacob MacIsaac of the U.S. Border Patrol...
....Despite tunneling efforts, the border wall's four-foot below-ground depth and 18 to 30 foot above-ground height have been effective in managing the border. Because, as MacIsaac puts it, "it's afforded us the luxury of time." However, what the wall has also brought patrol officers is the luxury of infrastructure to manage scaling the border's vast hills and canyons (pictured on the left).
Prior to the building of the wall, the paved roads seen in that photo (above left) looked more like a dirt path (pictured below right). Scaling the hills and canyons surrounding the border could take as long as 45 minutes...
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
MAGA
Please don’t say anything positive about the wall because Biden will have it removed if he hears it.
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