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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: luvbach1
Here is a little reading material on the border wall testing
81 posted on 03/15/2018 1:36:15 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport

Glad to see our special forces could not scale the prototype border walls. The open borders crowd says that all one needs to scale the 30-foot walls is a 32-foot ladder. Bit they forgot that the chosen wall will be see-through.


82 posted on 03/15/2018 3:59:49 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: SkyPilot

May I recommend Claymores?

5.56mm


83 posted on 03/15/2018 4:01:45 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: depressed in 06

South side.


84 posted on 03/16/2018 7:13:19 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: SkyPilot

Looks like they plan to build mountains of garbage. I wonder if there is anything we can to about that. The Mexican government may even help them.


85 posted on 03/17/2018 4:47:25 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus. He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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