Posted on 01/02/2021 1:21:48 AM PST by conservative98
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials reported significant decreases in illegal border crossings and drug smuggling in sections where new barriers were built. Some sections reported nearly a 90 percent decrease in illegal entries compared to last year.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan tweeted a series of videos highlighting new sections of border walls. The commissioner said the completion of new walls decreased drug and human smuggling by significant numbers in these sections were no infrastructure previously existed.
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New border wall construction in Texas improves Border Patrol’s ability to slow, stop and/or contain attempted illegal cross border activity. In one section in RGV that had no border infrastructure, apprehensions have declined by 79%. pic.twitter.com/tPHVSrWd5Y— CBP Mark Morgan (@CBPMarkMorgan) December 31, 2020
I thought leftists and Nevertrumpers said walls don’t work?
30 foot bollards with anti-climb plates have a strong effect, even when left unmonitored and unmanned.
When the whole system with cameras, alarms and good road is installed, they can pretty effectively control that stretch of border.
Arizona has been the biggest winner in the Trump Program so far. New Mexico and California made out great. If it stops before Texas is done however, Texas might end up catching a lot of diverted flow
The left has a million different reasons for why a widely accepted solution to a problem that they support somehow only won’t work in this particular case.
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