PHOTO: cnn.com
TIJUANA — The prototypes of the Trump border wall are taking shape this month in a sunbaked swath of scrubland abutting a run-down neighborhood of Tijuana, Mexico. Lined up next to each other, the 30-foot-tall concrete and steel sample barriers — some with extra-stout reinforced bases, others topped with metal spikes — certainly look ominous.
The requirements established to realize President Trump’s vision call for “a fence that is impenetrable, it’s unscalable,” said Roy Villareal, acting chief patrol agent of the San Diego border sector. “They can’t dig under it. They can’t cut through it.”
Even these big warning slabs of concrete, the teeming construction site, and police and helicopters patrolling both sides of the border weren’t enough to stop a half-dozen would-be migrants from hopping the existing fence this month and landing smack in the middle of the project, according to U.S. border officials.
Maybe the fence-hoppers were unlucky, or had chosen an ill-advised hide-in-plain-sight strategy, but either way, their experience is suggestive of how many Mexicans feel about Trump’s wall: No matter how it’s built, it’s not going to work.
Click here to read full article on The Washington Post
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/
Comments
more recommended stories
Are hurricanes spurring more Central American migration?SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) —.
If approved by Cofepris, Pfizer vaccine will arrive in December: Marcelo EbrardOn Tuesday, November 24th, Marcelo Ebrard,.
Illegal logging, a problem afflicting the beekeeping industry in Yucatan“It is urgent to update the.
Diego Maradona dies in ArgentinaArgentine soccer player Diego Armando Maradona.
Tren Maya starts hiring construction workers in YucatanMaxcanú, Yucatán (November 24, 2020).- In.
Progreso will have the largest shipyard in Latin AmericaThe project, result of an agreement.
Five feet long crocodile found under a car in Las AméricasMÉRIDA, YUCATAN (November 25, 2020).- On.
Best Buy may be the “first of several” to close in MexicoThe chief economist of Banco Base,.
Tampa Bay’s superstar Randy Arozarena arrested in Merida, YucatanOn Tuesday, November 24, Tampa Bay Rays.
Mexican Cop Turned Cartel Boss abbed in Mormon American family massacreAn ex-police officer alleged to be.
BUSQUE A UN MÉDICO
Leave a Comment