In western Arizona, over a hundred miles of new border wall is getting results

Washington Examiner ^ | October 26, 2020 | Anna Giaritelli

[george76]

YUMA — Dozens of construction workers labor like a bustling colony of ants — only this colony is located along a 126-mile-long portion of the United States's southern border with Mexico.

Standing 100 feet from one of these construction sites, watching workers install the concrete-filled steel beams into the ground feels painfully slow, but driving along the banks of the river and canal, the workers' years of labor is overwhelmingly evident and compelling. The wall is up, everywhere.

Workers decked in orange vests operate the yellow construction machines in a robotic fashion as they drop the maroon pieces of steel into the ground and then repeat the step again and again. Enough piles of these steel beams sit in a nearby field of dirt to run the length of a football field.

Over the past three years, construction crews here have installed 90 miles of border wall and almost 40 miles more of a parallel, back-up wall in the Yuma border patrol region, which spans from the Imperial Dunes in southeastern California to Arizona’s Pima County line. Compared to what I saw on a visit one year ago, the places on the border that Border Patrol agents show me today are unrecognizable.

The border has physically changed as a result of the Trump administration’s decision to fund projects along the 2,000-mile dividing line between two countries. But it is also different in the way federal agents who are responsible for securing this strip of land-use infrastructure such as a wall to carry out their national security mission.

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five-mile stretch of the border will not get new wall because the land belongs to the Cocopah Reservation. This area is where agents are seeing the most illegal immigration right now, an indication of the new wall’s success at preventing illegal entries.

[Irish Eyes]

Those Indians might change their mind about the wall when they are the only point of egress.

I have heard that some of them are reconsidering.

[Yulee]

five-mile stretch of the border will not get new wall because the land belongs to the Cocopah Reservation. This area is where agents are seeing the most illegal immigration right now, an indication of the new wall’s success at preventing illegal entries.
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Simple, build the wall on the northern border of the reservation. The indians can come and go as they please, through one entrance, or roadway, just like any other border crossing.

It won’t be long before they’ll sue to move the wall south, especially if any illegal alien convey gathers within their reservation.

[Toughluck_freeper]

What about president Roosevelt getting a strip of 60 feet wide strip along the entire border, to belong to the US government?

That 60 ft. wide strip does not belong to the reservation. (or does it?)

[hinckley buzzard]

I think the problem is that the Cocopah live on both sides of the border. The wall would split their territory. Still, where there is will there is a way.

[BeauBo]

The old single layer landing mat barrier (left, which a pick up truck could ram through and drive into the country), vs. the new double layers of 30 foot bollards (with new technology for virtually 100% detection).

"Compared to what I saw on a visit one year ago, the places on the border that Border Patrol agents show me today are unrecognizable."

[Verginius Rufus]

Egress?

Didn't P. T. Barnum have a sign "This way to the egress"? (This was to get customers moving along instead of loitering--people didn't know what "egress" meant and assumed it was something exotic to see.)

[Fai Mao]

Then they should build a wall on the Mexican side of their reservation. I bet that the president could even be convinced to help with that financially

[PIF]

So the tribe owns the border, and national immigration policy that applies to it? Yeah, ok, sure.
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They own whatever they chose to claim they own - wherever that maybe, including the land the rest of us live on.

Their ancestors where created there, so the courts have ruled that they have superior and real Rights enshrined in the Constitution - unlike the ‘rights’ for others which the courts have ruled are mere privileges which can be revoked at any given time. So bow low when a tribal member passes by.

[PIF]

Just what kind of anti-American losers are these indians?

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The drug cartel kind