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Posted on 01/25/2026 10:41:04 AM PST by BeauBo
The U.S. Border Patrol’s Big Bend Sector unveiled a first-of-its-kind advanced vehicle barrier system today at the Sierra Blanca immigration checkpoint, a critical enforcement location along Interstate 10.
The GRAB 350 is a new semi-autonomous vehicle barrier system designed by Global GRAB Technologies to enhance public safety, strengthen border security and deter dangerous attempts to evade inspection.
The new system, installed at the permanent immigration checkpoint in Hudspeth County approximately 90 miles east of El Paso, is the first of its kind deployed at any of the 45 permanent U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints nationwide. It is intended to deter and effectively stop vehicles attempting to flee at high speeds before they can enter one of the nation’s busiest highway corridors.
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The system has stoplights and signage at the checkpoint, as well as sensors. When deployed by the officers on duty, tire shredders quickly open on the ground, and a catch net pops up to block or decelerate speeding vehicles trying to blow through the checkpoint.
From the Press release: "The advanced active vehicle barrier solution uses a layered approach that combines an energy absorbing ground-retractable barrier with an in-ground tire-shredding system that are both U.S. Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act Certified. Together, the components allow U.S. Border Patrol agents to rapidly disable fleeing vehicles within the checkpoint perimeter.
The system, which is American Society for Testing and Materials crash-certified, is designed to stop extremely large vehicles traveling at high rates of speed, and has successfully stopped real-world threats traveling over 50 miles an hour. It can be deployed remotely by trained agents from a protected position and includes vehicle-detection sensors to reduce the risk of accidental activation...
...The Sierra Blanca immigration checkpoint is one of four permanent checkpoints in the Big Bend Sector. It processes thousands of vehicles daily traveling through the southern United States. The strategic location in a mountain pass along Interstate 10 plays a vital role in detecting illegal activity and preventing illegal aliens and narcotics from reaching major population centers."
For the targeted illegals at the checkpoints, could have them “discombobulated”...
Is that a female border security guard in the background of pic #1?
Our Navy base has a pop-up barrier that is about 4 feet tall
A perp tried driving onto the base at high speed
He was going to shoot the place up
BIG mistake.
A man was shot and killed at a Texas Navy base Thursday morning after he attempted to smash through a security gate there and later charged security personnel on foot.
The guy in the foreground doesn’t look much more muscular than she does.
>> Is that a female border security guard
yeah, or a guy that identifies as a pony. 😆
Is that a female border security guard in the background of pic #1?
Can’t say. Don’t know what a woman is until Katanga Brown figures it out and tells me.
Where are the tire shredders? In those black boxes on the ground in front of the net?
Sounds like they might have adapted arresting cables from aircraft carriers.
NICE!!
History trivia
Sierra Blanca is where the southern Transcontinental railroad was completed in in 1881 when the Texas & Pacific met up with the Southern Pacific. It provided a more reliable winter route to the Pacific.
“Where are the tire shredders?
They pop up between the black blocks like switchblades. The spaces between the black blocks running the other way (across the road) allow the pop up barrier to fold down between them.
When it is stowed, it is like flat road, and you drive over the black blocks like it was a flat storm drain. The picture shows the barrier net deployed, but not the tire shredders, which I guess is an option for slow traffic periods where you are checking every car, and dropping the net for each one to pass.
In video, they showed it go from open road to net and tire shredders deployed in about a second, when the big red button gets pushed.
“Is that a female border security guard?”
Hey, if she is a good shot, and places effective fire on the enemy, welcome to the team.
“A perp tried driving onto the base at high speed”
This infrastructure is a great force multiplier, protecting the security forces themselves, as well as those they protect. No need for dangerous high speed chases, and the threats are contained where they best be controlled.
Thanks!
“Sierra Blanca is where the southern Transcontinental railroad was completed in in 1881”
Fun fact.
The terrain (mountain pass) channelizes traffic though that point. The locals probably had trails/trade routes through there a thousand years ago, and now we have an Interstate highway through there, as well as rail. A good choke point for controlling illegal traffic.
“For the targeted illegals at the checkpoints, could have them “discombobulated”...”
Reading some of the other articles on this system, it was designed to be non-lethal, providing a degree of sudden deceleration that would be survivable with seat belts and airbags. That is likely on average however, so some might well die if they are frail, or at high speed in a very light clown car of some sort. I doubt a motorcyclist would fare very well hitting that net, which can stop a truck.
Also, a bunch of illegals squatting in the back of a truck with no seatbelts or airbags, could be in for a hard landing.
...on the tire shredder knives!
Where did you see a video?
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