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Undaunted by Trump's wall, migrants vow to go over it
Yahoo News and AFP ^ | 13 Mar 18 | Yemeli ORTEGA

Posted on 03/13/2018 5:05:21 AM PDT by SkyPilot

A man jogs on the Mexican side of the Mexico-US border in Tijuana, from where prototypes of the wall that US President Donald Trump wants to build are visible

Eladio Sanchez is unimpressed by the eight border wall prototypes looming over his house in Tijuana, Mexico, almost within spitting distance of where US President Donald Trump will visit Tuesday.

At age 30, he has already snuck over the border several times, and doesn't expect Trump's wall will have much effect on undocumented migrants like him.

Pointing to the only prototype with an angular barrier at the top -- a concrete structure built by Texas Sterling Construction Company -- Sanchez says that one might slow him down a little more than the others.

But, he told AFP, "you can get over it anyway."

"It's just a little more complicated. But people are always looking for a way to get over -- out of necessity, not because we want to."

In Tijuana, Trump's visit to the prototypes looks like just the latest slap in the face from a man who launched his presidential campaign calling Mexican immigrants "criminals" and "rapists" and has since driven US-Mexican relations to their lowest point in recent memory.

It's as if "he wants to come just to tell us he's here, that he's going to do what he promised with the wall," says Sanchez, who lives in a small gray house in a poor neighborhood that juts up against the border, across from Otay Mesa, on the outskirts of San Diego.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: illegals; immigration; mexico; wall
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To: VietVet876

Heh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDrYkwG6Tuo


61 posted on 03/13/2018 10:39:18 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: euram
"the border wall should be topped with a coil or two of concertina wire."

Ladders with a rope to descend are the likely way to get past the new 30 foot barriers. Concertina on top would really make that much harder. Concertina could probably be added later where needed, at reasonably low cost.

62 posted on 03/13/2018 10:45:21 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: SkyPilot

63 posted on 03/13/2018 11:08:18 AM PDT by al_c (LIBERAL - Laughable Iconsiderate Blaming Entitled Ranting Anti-christian Loudmouth)
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To: Red Badger
There is no wall on Mexico's southern border. Here's what one section between Mexico and Guatemala looks like ...


64 posted on 03/13/2018 11:11:42 AM PDT by al_c (LIBERAL - Laughable Iconsiderate Blaming Entitled Ranting Anti-christian Loudmouth)
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To: SkyPilot

Just can’t fix the sh!thole they’ve made of Mexico, can they? I hate Mexicans.


65 posted on 03/13/2018 11:32:18 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Red Badger

You know why Mexico has that wall on their southern border?
They don’t want the competition from those other countries to sneak into the US. Who the hell would want to sneak into the shithole of Mexico anyway?


66 posted on 03/13/2018 1:11:59 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: SkyPilot

“..migrants vow to go over it...”

Don’t worry Pedro.

We’ll THROW your ass BACK over it.


67 posted on 03/13/2018 5:22:39 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NorthMountain
This is why we MUST quit giving SNAP, TANF, WIC, Medicare, government schools, driver licenses, etc. to illegal aliens.

Heck; This is why we MUST quit giving SNAP, TANF, WIC, Medicare, government schools, driver licenses, etc. to able bodied AMERICANS!!

Quit Subsidizing SLOTH!


68 posted on 03/13/2018 5:22:55 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: FrdmLvr
Build turnstiles that operate in one direction - OUT - into the wall at several locations, then end welfare to illegals. They’ll self deport.

Heck; end welfare to lazy Americans.

Maybe they'll float to Germany or Denmark.

69 posted on 03/13/2018 5:26:38 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Red Badger

We, as a Country - Americans, that is (as opposed to liberals), need to tell folks using the word “racist” as a weapon to silence us to go f*** themselves.

Words only power when you let them have power.


70 posted on 03/13/2018 5:26:44 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Candor7
Just a powered up bug zapper.


71 posted on 03/13/2018 5:59:34 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: glennaro
More accurate:

Border Invader


72 posted on 03/13/2018 6:00:23 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

One can always hope.


73 posted on 03/13/2018 7:04:14 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: NorthMountain
Oh, yeah, ‘’getting over’’ alright. As in getting over the American taxpayer subsidizing their way through life. God how I hate illegal aliens. Arrogant, pugnacious bastards, all of them.
74 posted on 03/14/2018 12:45:04 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: robel

If Mexicans put half the energy into fixing their country as they do in destroying ours they might someday have a country worth living in.


75 posted on 03/14/2018 12:47:31 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: NFHale

True. I get so tired of hearing the word being misused, it has lost all meaning. They have made ‘racism’ the ‘do all’ and ‘end all’ of every argument they have...................


76 posted on 03/14/2018 6:07:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: jmacusa
If Mexicans put half the energy into fixing their country as they do in destroying ours they might someday have a country worth living in.

The reason Mexico wants a policy of open borders is that its economy and infrastructure can't support its ever-growing population. Their solution to this surplus population of indigent (and often criminal) elements is to dump them all on us.

77 posted on 03/14/2018 7:27:30 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Red Badger

“...it has lost all meaning....”

But still there are those on our side who pee down their legs at the sound of it being hurled their way.

Makes me sick to see it. Grown men afraid of a word, wielded by weasels.


78 posted on 03/14/2018 12:01:30 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: ek_hornbeck
...its economy and infrastructure can't support its ever-growing population.

Evidently; ours can't either.


Why else do we KILL about one million future American CITIZENS every year??

Mexico is merely replacing those that SHOULD have been born here; but choosy mothers and their serial killers changed THAT equation.

79 posted on 03/15/2018 4:34:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SkyPilot

To heck with a wall.
We need a DMZ with minefields, machine gun towers, and gunship patrols.


80 posted on 03/15/2018 1:25:30 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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