This is a progress report on the border fence building project in the area of Lukeville and the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument area. About 43 miles of new 30-foot-high bollard fence is being constructed there at this time.
This is a report on the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation on the border in Southwestern Arizona. The reservation has about 62 miles of border with Mexico. There are about 70 miles of border in the area that only have vehicle barrier, at most, including a few miles on either side of the reservation. This stretch is wide open to those on foot. Illegal crossers or drug smugglers can hike to a highway, a safe house or a pickup location.
The Reservation is bounded on the west by the Organ Pape Cactus national monument. There’s a border crossing in Lukeville. On the East the reservation reaches almost to Sasabe where there’s another border crossing. The reservation border is bounded on east and west by low mountain ridges.
The smuggling cartels control who crosses the border. There are tens of miles on either side of this short stretch of new border fence where the border can be crossed much more easily, because new fence has not been built, yet. The are many miles of border near Calexico where a person can still just walk across with no effort. There really is no need to go over this new 30-foot-high fence, except as a publicity stunt. Why risk your life crossing a short stretch of 30-foot-high fence when you can walk around it? You can say this was a kind of PsyOp, a demo that the fence could be crossed to embarrass the Border Patrol, to embarrass Trump and to demoralize supporters of border security. At the same time it enthuses those fanatical anti-Americans, who oppose border security and want to destroy America at any cost.
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Report on the status of the existing border fence in Jacumba, Ca for November, 2019. Most of the the six miles of existing fence is already bollard fence that was installed in 2008 during the Bush presidency. A small part is landing mat fence that was constructed about 25 years ago, during the Clinton term. It is not known, whether there are any plans to upgrade or add to this existing fence at this time.
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Video covers about 42-miles of border from just outside Calexico all the way to the Colorado River. 42 miles is a quarter of the Ca border and it’s nearly all 15-foot-high bollard fence already, pre-Trump Wall. There were news reports about it already in 2009. It was no doubt funded during the Dubya Bush era and the construction may have continued into Obama’s time. That seems to be the case with many, if not all of these pre-Trump bollard fences. They were all funded and constructed at about that same time.
Enter Sand Dragon: The $40m Floating Mexican Border Fence
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