cutting the wire? Is it on federal land?
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Keep in mind that this border is along the Rio Grande river
and makes up about half of the U.S. – Mexico border,
stretching 1,254 miles from the Gulf of México to El Paso.
The Treaty of November 23, 1970 resolved all pending boundary differences and provided for maintaining the Rio Grande and the Colorado River as the international boundary. The Rio Grande was reestablished as the boundary throughout its 1,254-mile (2,019 km) limitrophe section. The Treaty includes provisions for restoring and preserving the character of the Rio Grande as the international boundary where that character has been lost, to minimize changes in the channel, and to resolve problems of sovereignty that might arise due to future changes in the channel of the Rio Grande. It provides for procedures designed to avoid the loss of territory by either country incident to future changes in the river's course due causes other than lateral movement, incident to eroding one of its banks and depositing alluvium on the opposite bank. This Treaty, too, charged the IBWC with carrying out its provisions.