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University of New Mexico considers building border fence around campus to keep criminals out
College Fix ^ | JUNE 3, 2019 | JENNIFER KABBANY - FIX EDITOR

Posted on 06/04/2019 1:49:08 PM PDT by robowombat

University of New Mexico considers building border fence around campus to keep criminals out JENNIFER KABBANY - FIX EDITOR •JUNE 3, 2019

The University of New Mexico is considering whether to build a large border wall around its perimeter to protect the campus community from criminal activity.

The proposed “10-foot-tall, wrought-iron fence with sharp points at the top” would be used “as a security barrier between New Mexico’s largest public university and the rest of the city,” reports the Albuquerque Journal.

The university has faced everything from homeless people on campus to drug users locking themselves in the bathroom stalls to get high to hundreds of car thefts — and even rapes — the newspaper reported.

Consultants paid to help drum up ideas on how to keep the campus safe had suggested the 13,000 feet of fencing, but a campus spokesman told the Journal that there “are no imminent decisions about perimeter security and any strategy involves multiple things to consider before moving forward.”

According to the university’s most recent report on criminal activity on campus, in 2017 there were 18 rapes, 12 cases of fondling, seven robberies, 15 aggravated assaults, 211 motor vehicle thefts, four arson cases, 39 burglaries, 16 liquor law arrests, eight drug arrests, and one illegal weapons arrest.

“Unlike many large state universities, UNM is in the ‘urban center’ of Albuquerque, where crime, notably car theft, and violence are ongoing concerns. The campus’ southern border is along Central Avenue, a high-crime corridor with a large number of panhandlers and transients,” the Journal reports, adding that others simply visit campus to jog or enjoy various theater performances.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: crime; education; newmexico; wall
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Some walls are OK.
1 posted on 06/04/2019 1:49:08 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: robowombat

Some walls are more equal than others.


2 posted on 06/04/2019 1:54:01 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: robowombat

I’m not familiar with that university’s on-campus politcs. Will they favor illegal immigration while protected with their own private wall? Or, will the students prance around declaring, “Tear this wall down?”


3 posted on 06/04/2019 1:54:06 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Public U right? Plenty of money around.


4 posted on 06/04/2019 1:55:29 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It’s not the money I was asking about, it’s the cognitive dissonance that will be created by this sort of sane campus self-defense.


5 posted on 06/04/2019 1:56:43 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Interesting. Hard to say. There have been several muggings, armed robberies , and a car jacking on campus.


6 posted on 06/04/2019 1:57:47 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: robowombat

Some animals are more equal than others.


7 posted on 06/04/2019 2:00:24 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: robowombat

NPC liberals in support of this: “Trump’s wall is very lame, yet our wall is not the same!”


8 posted on 06/04/2019 2:01:01 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: robowombat

Sounds pretty Racist to me, Why does New Mexico have so much Hate for their fellow man?


9 posted on 06/04/2019 2:01:47 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: robowombat

But walls don’t work.
/s


10 posted on 06/04/2019 2:02:14 PM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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To: robowombat

Professors believe in walls with pointy objects to keep out the riff raff out of their space but believe that the border walls that supposed to keep out the ruff raff out of America’s space is ‘racist’

BTW. Free College is important to keep ‘Big Education” afloat in grants to keep professors safe from the average taxpayer.

So stop grumbling and pay your taxes.. it’s important!


11 posted on 06/04/2019 2:02:28 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
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Oh the irony....


12 posted on 06/04/2019 2:05:45 PM PDT by mad puppy (E PLURIBUS UNUM)
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Central Ave is a cesspool. The city and state leadership has allowed drugs and prostitution to thrive. They are tolerant of criminals because that’s who keeps these libtards in office.


13 posted on 06/04/2019 2:09:47 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: robowombat

WALLS


14 posted on 06/04/2019 2:11:50 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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We need to protest it!!!


15 posted on 06/04/2019 2:21:15 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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".... Why does New Mexico have so much Hate for their fellow man?...."

Here are some statistics (from 2018) about New Mexico:

1. 3rd highest rate of property crime in the US

2. 4th highest rate of violent crimes in the US.

3. 4th highest rate of drug deaths in the US.

4. Highest rate of stolen vehicles in the US.

5. 50% increase in homicides from 2017.

6. 25% of children in NM live below the poverty line.

Not a statistic but a fact: The place is run by bleeding-heart, liberal democRATS.

This last fact explains the other statistics.

16 posted on 06/04/2019 2:34:10 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: samtheman

LOL.

Ouch!, too!


17 posted on 06/04/2019 2:37:36 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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7. Insurance rates for autos is one of the highest in the country.

These are just little hidden taxes on people for not having control of our border.

18 posted on 06/04/2019 2:45:56 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: robowombat

Every major university campus tends to be around total sh*thole and libtarded ‘hoods.


19 posted on 06/04/2019 2:48:24 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: robowombat

Has the uber lefty governette moved to stop the wall/fence yet? After all, criminals have rights too. Or something.


20 posted on 06/04/2019 2:51:05 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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