President Trump’s infamous border wall with Mexico was never intended to be impenetrable. But as most military and security experts understand, barriers are all about obstructing and delaying. Barriers are designed to slow down intruders long enough for responding forces to react.
In this case, the barrier is the wall, and the reaction forces are the U.S. Border Patrol agents in the field. In order to aid in that delay, and increase reaction times, the Border Patrol is now adding coils of concertina razor wire to the tops of the newly built border wall in El Paso, Texas.
The wire is reportedly being added to the wall along a stretch of a now 30-foot barrier between El Paso’s downtown Paso del Norte Bridge and the Bridge of the Americas. This is considered a high illegal alien crossing zone.
According to American Military News (AMN), “the El Paso region has seen illegal crossings by single adults rise for six months straight.” AMN adds that:
Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector, which includes New Mexico, apprehended 7,347 adults in October, a number that has increased each month since April, when agents apprehended 1,568 adults in the sector.
Apprehensions of single adults more than doubled from October a year ago, when 2,784 adults were apprehended in El Paso sector.
With increased border security measures, illegal aliens have been taking greater risks to enter the U.S., and human traffickers and smugglers have also adapted their illicit methods. This includes using makeshift, camouflaged ladders hung by smugglers on the wall discovered earlier this year.
The U.S. Border Patrol is simply trying to reduce the flow and the dangers involved in crossing the border illegally. AMN reported that a spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the El Paso sector installed the razor wire “to dissuade individuals from scaling the border wall and to reduce the risk of injuries sustained from falling off the barrier.”
He added in an email:
It is an added obstacle. It also extends the time for agents to respond by adding to the amount of time it may take some who are entering illegally to disappear into the community.
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Fakebook wont allow me to share this. They dont want the public to know the truth
I went through the process of sharing on FB, but whether or not
……..FB will allow it there, is still up in the air.
Run a 440 volt hot wire along the top, That will light up their life for a few seconds. The border patrol can watch for the flashes as they look like a bug zapper by night and the puff of smoke by day. Illegals, Please stay in your own country and work on making it better instead of coming here as we are running out of money to take care of you. If you don’t it may come to you being dumped in a land fill with no headstone. We have enough of our own problems to deal with and your just adding to it. You have been warned comrade!
I think a more permanent approach to the situation would be to nuke Mexico, that will ensure no more illegal criminals can enter the United States.
I did a 220 a motorcycle battery kind of on steroids. They were hopping off and nobody knew why. 😉
Biden sadly will rip it all down and we will have illegals, etc running all over our country without any identification. Biden will give them immediately citizenship, free driver’s licences, medicare, health insurance, etc that our citizens had to work for all their lives. It is going to be a life changing four years and not for the good.
Susan dont worry . Its Trump 2020. All you are seeing and hearing is pantomime. He has already Officially won via the QFS System signed off by Justice Amy Barrett. Wake up World. Evil is being exposed.
No matter what the liberals tell you — we still run this country and we need to Fight not to let this happen — even if it comes to using violence — unfortunately that’s all they know and respond to — and this is direction they are forcing the narrative its not our choice but let the games begin – My personal Investment idea for 2021 is to invest in Lead not gold
In a way that will make it easier for me to hunt the scumbags, but I see your point.
Idiot Biden and Harris will tear the wall down. The illegals will get welfare, food stamps, free health care, sex trafficking will increase and terrorists will flood our country including MS-13 gangs. Meanwhile, our country will be in the hands of a 47 year dirty politician with dementia and a bozo Harris.
I would shoot them off the top like tin cans
I agree with the comment on running a high voltage line at the top of the wall. Use it as part of the electrical grid. No poles needed and saves a lot of money.
It isn’t penetrable such as you can’t just climb over without injuries. It sure slows them down.