If they fabricated a real fence instead, their claims of being opposed to illegal invasions would not ring so hollow.
Because they ring VERRY hollow.
I have even heard the claim that fences don't work. That. of course, is a lie as they have worked very well here in SoCal.
Today, Henry is assistant chief of the Border Patrol's San Diego sector. He says apprehensions here are down 95 percent, from 100,000 a year to 5,000 a year, largely because the single strand of cable marking the border was replaced by double — and in some places, triple — fencing.
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