Politics Securing The Border With A Wall, Duh

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  1. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Obama probably told her how to sneak back in.

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    At first I was thinking maris stole your account, but the key word probably would have never been used by maris as he would have said "definitely". :bgrin:
     
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    Mexico reports over 61,000 people missing, discovery of 873 burial pits amid raging drug war
    By Stephen Sorace | Fox News

    The Mexican government released “statistics of horror” on Monday that showed nearly 62,000 citizens have vanished since the government began its increasingly violent offensive against ruthless drug cartels in 2006.

    Karla Quintana, head of the National Registry of Missing or Missing Persons (RNPED), revised the number of missing to 61,637 people, a figure far surpassing a previous estimate of 40,000 from June.

    “We have to remember we’re talking here about lives and families and people who are still missing,” Quintana said during a press conference in Mexico City. “These are statistics of horror behind which lie so many stories of such great pain.”

    While the statistics date back as far as the 1960s, more than 97.4 percent of the total have disappeared since 2006, when the country first waged its drug war against the cartels. Women represent 25.7 percent of the missing, Quintana said.

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    Citizens have participated in demonstrations to demand justice for those missing. (REUTERS/Henry Romero)

    In 2006, then-President Felipe Calderon had his army take the fight against drug traffickers to the streets — a move that fragmented the cartels and made it more difficult to oppose them, Reuters reported.

    The revised numbers come as Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has faced criticism for his policy of using “hugs, not bullets” when fighting drug cartels amid a skyrocketing murder rate during his first year in office.

    In November, new figures from Mexico's Secretary General of National Public Safety showed that the country's homicide was on pace to reach its highest overall annual total since the government started tracking in 1997. The data showed that there had been 29,414 homicides in 2019 — that's nearly 100 people killed each day.

    In 2018, there were a total of 36,685 murders in Mexico, the most since the office started gathering data on the crime more than two decades ago. This year, the number of homicides is expected to surpass that figure.

    MEXICAN MOTHERS DISCOVER DOZENS OF BODIES BURIED IN MASS GRAVE NEAR RESORT TOWN SOUTH OF ARIZONA BORDER

    Mexico has tasked its National Search Commission with locating the tens of thousands of missing citizens.

    In its first 13 months of work, officials on Monday said it uncovered 1,124 corpses and 873 clandestine burial pits.

    The unmarked pits are frequently used by drug and kidnapping gangs to dispose of the bodies of their victims or rivals.

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    Last October, a group of mothers uncovered searching for missing loved ones discovered a mass grave in Sonora. The initially found 42 bodies, but the count continued to increase in the ensuing weeks. (Sonora Attorney General's Office)

    The commission said about a third of the corpses found the last 13 months were located in just three of the country's 31 states: the northern state of Sinaloa, the Gulf coast state of Veracruz and the Pacific coast state of Colima.

    But many of the most recent cases of disappearances have been centered in the western state of Jalisco, home to the drug cartel of the same name, and Sonora.

    Last October, a clandestine burial site containing dozens of bodies was discovered in Sonora near the resort town of Puerto Peñasco, located south of the Arizona border. Some Mexican officials have suggested the mass grave held the victims of a raging gun battle six years ago between government forces and the Sinaloa cartel.

    As Mexico faces a crisis of unidentified bodies piling up, the country has set up DNA databases to help with the identifying process. However, the majority of bodies found in clandestine burial pits still go unidentified.

    Fox News' Greg Norman and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
     
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    GOP senators press DHS for answers on Pensacola shooter’s visa approval

    By Tyler Olson | Fox News
    The FBI says the Pensacola shooter used a hunting loophole to purchase his gun legally; Jacqui Heinrich reports.

    Three GOP senators are looking into how the Saudi Arabian national who killed three Americans in a shooting at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., was allowed into the United States.


    Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, both of Florida, sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf asking how Royal Saudi Air Force 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed al-Shamrani was let into the U.S. before he killed three U.S. sailors and severely wounded eight other Americans in the Dec. 6 attack.

    Attorney General William Barr said al-Shamrani was "motivated by jihadist ideology" as the U.S. was expelling 21 Saudi nationals living in America who, like al-Shamrani, trained with the U.S. military at facilities, including NAS Pensacola.

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    The NAS Pensacola shooter was identified as Mohammed Alshamrani, a 21-year-old 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force who was a student naval flight officer of Naval Aviation Schools Command. (FBI)

    NAS PENSACOLA SHOOTING WAS AN 'ACT OF TERRORISM,' BARR SAYS; US TO EXPEL 21 SAUDI NATIONALS IN TRAINING PROGRAM

    "According to other reports, the Saudi government allegedly believes that al-Shamrani may have embraced a radical Islamist ideology as early as 2015, two years before he entered the United States. Just before his attack, al-Shamrani visited the 9/11 Memorial in New York City," the senators' letter said.

    The letter asks for a timeline of al-Shamrani's vetting, whether or not there were any red flags in documents that Saudi Arabia provided about al-Shamrani before he was let into the country and how individuals like al-Shamrani are treated differently from other foreigners coming to the U.S. on a visa, among other things.

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    The senators are asking for the information by Feb. 7 and a briefing by Feb. 21.

    The shooting at NAS Pensacola also prompted a group of U.S. Navy instructor pilots to ask top military brass for permission to arm themselves.
     
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    Grandmother, granddaughter allegedly smuggled 200 pounds of meth from Mexico into California
    By Bradford Betz | Fox News

    A grandmother and her granddaughter were intercepted at the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday attempting to smuggle more than 200 pounds of methamphetamine into California, authorities say.

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers apprehended the 65-year-old woman and her 19-year-old granddaughter – both U.S. citizens – at the Andrade Port of Entry in southeastern California, according to a CBP press release.

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    CBP says it seized more than 200 pounds were intercepted at the Andrade Port of Entry this week. (Google Maps)

    A CBP canine had alerted officers to a 2006 Dodge Durango while roving through vehicle lanes. The Durango was referred for further inspection, CBP says.

    Officers discovered nearly 300 packages of methamphetamine in the vehicle’s roof, doors and quarter panels. The narcotics reportedly have an estimated street value of more than $416,000.

    Border authorities seized the vehicle and turned the women over to Homeland Security Investigation agents for further processing.

    OHIO CUSTOMS AGENTS SEIZE 3,700 ‘INVASIVE’ MITTEN CRABS HIDDEN IN SHIPMENTS FROM CHINA, HONG KONG: OFFICIALS

    CBP officials apprehended two more fugitives at the California border this week: a Mexican national who had an active felony warrant for sex crimes with a minor in Southern California and a 23-year-old U.S. citizen who had an active warrant for homicide in Colorado.

    “These cases are just examples of the apprehensions CBP officers catch on a daily basis,” said Pete Flores, Director of Field Operations for CBP in San Diego. “CBP officers are vigilant to stop those who would do harm in our communities at the border, ad they attempt to enter the U.S.”
     
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    Georgia middle school teacher faces deportation after allegedly molesting student, 13, reports say

    By Paulina Dedaj | Fox News
    A Georgia middle school teacher could be deported after she was charged last week with molesting a student who prosecutors said is now in love with her.

    Rumah Byrapaka, 24, was arrested Jan. 16 and charged with one count of enticing a child for indecent purposes and one count of child molestation, according to Richmond County inmate records.

    Byrapaka, a teacher at Hephzibah Middle School, was arrested a day after the victim’s mother reported a relationship between her 13-year-old son and his teacher, the Augusta Chronicle reported.

    In arrest warrants obtained by the outlet, Byrapaka is accused of texting nude photos of herself and sending explicit messages to the teen. She also is accused of kissing and indecently touching him on school property.

    The school since has placed Byrapaka on paid administrative leave, WRDW reported.

    Byrapaka was granted a $27,700 bond for both charges Tuesday, but will not be released, even if she posts the funds.

    According to a separate report from the Chronicle, Byrapaka is not a U.S. citizen and was working on obtaining a student visa. It was not immediately clear where she is a citizen, but if she posts bond, Byrapaka would be placed in a federal detention center on an immigration hold.

    The victim’s family remained concerned after Tuesday’s court decision. Prosecutors with the Richmond County District Attorney’s Office claim that the victim is in love with Byrapaka and has previously sneaked out of his home to meet her, according to the New York Post.
     
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    When I was 13 I would have sold my soul to the Devil for sex with a young good looking woman teacher in my school. Think of all the bragging.
     
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    Top Democrats fume after Trump expands travel ban to six new countries

    By Adam Shaw | Fox News

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was one of a number of top Democrats to rip into President Trump’s decision to expand the travel ban to include six more countries on Friday -- with Pelosi describing it as “discrimination disguised as policy.”

    “The Trump administration’s expansion of its outrageous, un-American travel ban threatens our security, our values and the rule of law," she said in a statement. "The sweeping rule, barring more than 350 million individuals from predominantly African nations from traveling to the United States, is discrimination disguised as policy."

    The Trump administration is expanding restrictions to include Burma, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Tanzania and Sudan. Those are added to the current seven countries already included in the ban: Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.

    The initial ban was branded by critics as a “Muslim ban,” noting that President Trump had promised such a ban during his campaign and that the initial countries (which did not include North Korea and Venezuela, but did include Chad) were Muslim-majority countries.

    But after multiple court challenges, the Supreme Court upheld its constitutionality in 2018.

    For Burma, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria, the restrictions will apply to immigrant visas -- for those seeking to live or work in the U.S. permanently. For Sudan and Tanzania, the restrictions are being placed on diversity visas -- that come from the controversial diversity lottery program that grants visas to prospective immigrants randomly each year.

    The initial seven countries have restrictions on both immigrant and non-immigrant visas, but Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf told reporters that the six countries announced Friday are very different from the current seven, which is why the restrictions are lighter.

    “These countries, for the most part, want to be helpful, want to do the right thing, have relationships with the U.S. and are in some cases improving relations, but for a variety of different reasons failed to meet those minimum requirements that we laid out,” he said.

    Criteria considered when judging countries included to what extent the countries share information on passports and prospective bad actors, as well as whether or not the country poses an elevated national security risk in relation to crime, terrorism and illegal immigration.

    But the more nuanced approach did not appear to soften Democratic complaints about the move.

    “With this latest callous decision, the President has doubled down on his cruelty and further undermined our global leadership, our Constitution and our proud heritage as a nation of immigrants,” Pelosi said.

    Pelosi pledged that Democrats will oppose the ban in the courts and in Congress. She said that the House Judiciary Committee will mark up and send the “NO BAN Act” to the House floor. That legislation prohibits religious discrimination in immigration-related decisions. It also imposes restrictions on the president’s authority to restrict immigration -- forcing the administration to provide evidence of such a need to Congress for that restriction.

    Some 2020 candidates also weighed in on the ban's expansion. Sen. Elizabeth Warren called it a “racist, xenophobic” ban, and called on Congress to pass the NO BAN Act while also pledging to reverse what she called the “Muslim ban” on the first day of her presidency, if elected.

    Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., meanwhile, called it a “racist travel policy that dehumanizes immigrants and their families for [Trump’s] own political purposes."

    Former Vice President Joe Biden said Trump was "adding more countries to his list of who's not welcome in America" and promised to end the ban if elected.

    The expanded travel restrictions are one of a number of ways the administration is trying to enhance efforts to better vet potential immigrants. The administration announced Thursday that the public charge rule -- which restricts green cards to immigrants deemed likely to rely on welfare -- will go into effect in February after the Supreme Court allowed it. That rule too has seen significant Democratic opposition.
     
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    How can we trust what Mexico says. We were told that Mexico would pay for the wall and then found out they wouldn't. How rude.
     
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    Looks like a little over 10% of the Wall is being worked on at an average completion of maybe 50%. At that rate we should be complete in another 60 years.
     
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    They are finding that for every ten miles of wall its reduces border crossings by 30%.
     
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    Finding where? Finding in places where they've already, before Trump, put up wall?
    I've read that putting up resources that are spent on new wall are less effective than in other places such as increased border inspection at inspection points, surveillance drones, mobile border patrol and so on.
    I'm in favor of reduced drug smuggling and human trafficking but not in favor of wasted money.

    Did you hear about the wall being constructed that was blown down by wind? Sounds like some pretty poor construction engineering to me. Of course this could also be do to shoddy contract negotiating. I conjecture about this because that was my line of work at Boeing. Of course, Boeing was very good at those things when I worked there.
     
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    It was a joke! actually the wall will come in under budget unlike the Portland tram! part joke part truth!
     
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    Sorry, I do screw up so often that I wasn't sure.
    I haven't heard much about the budgeting and cost overruns except that the same results could be achieved with a lot less money than a Wall. This being true would mean that a Wall was by definition over budget.
    As for looking strictly at a Wall being over or under budget, I'd prefer to rely on expert analysis. For expert analysis you need someone experienced in analyzing similar wall contracting.
     
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    Where did you hear that at? Here's an article from a year ago that suggests otherwise.

    https://www.texasobserver.org/border-wall-trump-budget/
     
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    Cup, i was joking and being sarcastic. The part joke was wall under budget the truth was Tram way the hell over budget.
    Trump will try to eventually say the wall came in under budget and is very much a success and he's has Mexico paying for it.
     
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    Cruz: Build Kate's Wall with El Chapo's Money
    By Daniel John Sobieski

    It is an idea whose time has come. It would be poetic justice, fulfill a Trump campaign pledge, and wouldn’t cost the taxpayers a dime. It doesn’t make Mexico pay for the wall exactly, just one particular Mexican who has done great injury to the people of the United States and who is responsible for a major part of drugs flooding into the U.S.

    Upon news that Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, more commonly known as El Chapo, was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday and ordered to fork over billions, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz resurrected his idea of using any and all assets to be seized from El Chapo’s massive stash be used to build Trump’s border wall. As the Daily Mail reported:

    Cruz, a senator from Texas, told TMZ in a short interview on Capitol Hill that the $12.6 billion seized from El Chapo after he was convicted for drug trafficking should be used build President Donald Trump's border wall.

    'I think it's great that he's sentenced,' Cruz said. 'I think the next step is to criminally forfeit his entire global criminal enterprise. It's worth billions. And we should use every penny of that money to build the wall and secure the border.' …

    'Finding those assets, getting those assets, won't be easy. But we should and the Department of Justice will do it's very best to do that,' he continued…

    Cruz says there should be no question or debate over where the funds go when they are eventually obtained -- and in 2017 even introduced the EL CHAPO Act, which didn't go very far. He reintroduced in January the legislation that would allocate El Chapo's money for the border wall.

    'He made that money trafficking narcotics illegally into this country,' Cruz said, 'it's only fitting that that money goes to secure the border and stop other traffickers like he was.'

    In legislation previously introduced by Cruz -- the Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order (E.L.C.H.A.P.O.) Act which would use fund confiscated from drug dealers like El Chapo and traffickers to pay for border security. As Cruz explained after introducing his bill in April of 2017:

    Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a bill calling for the use of $14 billion seized from cartel drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to be used to pay for the President’s border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

    “Fourteen billion dollars will go a long way toward building a wall that will keep Americans safe and hinder the illegal flow of drugs, weapons, and individuals across our southern border,” Senator Cruz stated, according to a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas from the senator’s office…

    The Texas senator said that leveraging criminally forfeited assets from El Chapo and other Mexican cartel members and drug dealers can “offset the wall’s cost and make meaningful progress toward achieving President Trump’s stated border security objectives.”

    El Chapo is responsible for many crimes against his people and ours, including the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry using a weapon supplied by presidential wannabe and former Obama AG Eric Holder:


    We assume Holder reads the morning paper and has heard of the 40 assault weapons illegally purchased under the Phoenix ATF's Fast and Furious operation that somehow wound up in the home of Sinaloa cartel enforcer Torres "the Jaguar" Marrufo. If he has, we suspect his reaction might have been akin to that of another famous sitcom character, Steve Urkel: "Did I do that?"


    This is no sitcom, but rather a major tragedy -- and a major crime. Marrufo is the enforcer for Sinaloa Cartel chieftain Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed at the hands of an illegal immigrant working for the Sinaloa cartel just 10 miles from the Mexico border near Nogales, Ariz.


    Among the weapons Obama and Holder supplied El Chapo with under Fast and Furious was a high-caliber .50-caliber rifle liberals like to rail against: As Fox News reported about Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo”:


    A .50-caliber rifle found at Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman’s hideout in Mexico was funneled through the gun-smuggling investigation known as Fast and Furious, sources confirmed Tuesday to Fox News.


    A .50-caliber is a massive rifle that can stop a car or, as it was intended, take down a helicopter…


    Federal law enforcement sources told Fox News that ‘El Chapo’ would put his guardsmen on hilltops to be on guard for Mexican police helicopters that would fly through valleys conducting raids. The sole purpose of the guardsmen would be to shoot down those helicopters, sources said.

    Contrary to claims by Sen. Chuck Schumer that border walls are ineffective, the empirical evidence shows that border walls work and no place is better proof than the Yuma sector in Arizona:

    For years, Yuma sector was besieged by chaos as a nearly unending flood of migrants and drugs poured across our border. Even as agents were arresting on average 800 illegal aliens a day, we were still unable to stop the thousands of trucks filled with drugs and humans that quickly crossed a vanishing point and dispersed into communities all across the country…

    The bipartisan Secure Fence Act of 2006 -- supported by then-Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and others -- mandated the construction of hundreds of additional miles of secure fencing and infrastructure investments. Yuma sector was one of the first areas to receive infrastructure investments.

    We built new infrastructure along the border east and west of the San Luis Arizona Port of Entry in 2006. The existing fence was quickly lengthened, and we added second and third layers to that fencing in urban areas. Lighting, roads and increased surveillance were added to aid agents patrolling the border.

    Although there is still work to do, the border in Yuma sector today is more secure because of this investment. Even under lax enforcement standards, apprehensions in fiscal year 2016 were roughly a 10th of what they were in FY 2005 -- and are on track to be even lower this year. Crime has significantly decreased in the Yuma area, and smugglers now look for other less difficult areas of the border to cross -- often areas without fencing.

    Kate Steinle’s blood, among that of others, is on the hands of open-border advocates and the sanctuary city loons who provide no sanctuary for the American citizen victims of illegal alien criminals. Too many American mothers have become “Angel Moms”, permanently separated from their children by death, ignored by the race-baiting open border advocates such as “The Squad.” Cruz’s idea should be embraced to accelerate funding for and construction of the promised border wall the various sections of which should be named after the victims of illegal alien predators such as Kate Steinle.

    Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.
     
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    Privately funded border wall built at El Paso: 'Why wouldn't we allow it?' land owner asks

    Aaron Martinez, El Paso Times Published 12:39 p.m. MT May 27, 2019 | Updated 5:48 p.m. MT May 27, 2019

    A private group has built a $6 million bollard-type wall at the border on private property near Mount Cristo Rey with funds raised from a GoFundMe account.

    The segment of wall was paid for by the "We Build the Wall" organization on land owned by American Eagle Brick Company. It is by Monument One — an official marker at the spot where New Mexico, Texas and the Mexican state of Chihuahua converge — at Border Highway West, near Executive Center Boulevard

    The company's co-owner Jeff Allen confirmed that the wall was being built on his property.

    "Why wouldn't we allow it?," Allen asked. "We have dealt with illegals coming across. We have been attacked by illegals coming across. We have been burglarized by illegals. We have drug traffickers coming through here and anyone who is against this is against America."

    Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state known for his hard-line immigration stances, announced that the wall was nearly complete on Memorial Day, calling it a gift to America.

    Kobach is general counsel for We Build the Wall. He has been mentioned as a possible pick by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

    Kris Kobach, general council to We Build the Wall, explains the materials the wall is made out of Monday, May 27. El Paso Times

    "It was important to us to make the announcement today, on Memorial Day," Kobach told the El Paso Times during a tour of the site. "This wall is all about securing our border and our nation, so it is fitting, and we worked hard to get it built this holiday weekend. This is us trying to give America a present for Memorial Day."

    He later added, "We built the wall and then hand the keys to the Border Patrol and say 'Here. Happy Memorial Day.'"


    Reached Monday, U.S. Border Patrol officials said that they could not immediately comment on the privately built wall.

    The "We Build The Wall" project was started by a U.S. war veteran, Brian Kolfage, and is being led by a group that includes Kobach and former White House strategist Steve Bannon.

    The Go Fund Me page calls the project "Trump approved." As of Monday afternoon, it had raised more than $22 million of its $1 billion goal.

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    A private group, We Build the Wall, built a bollard-type wall on the U.S.-Mexico border on private property near Monument One near the Texas-New Mexico area. (Photo: Aaron Martinez / El Paso Times)

    The section of the wall being built in the El Paso area will cost between $6 million and $8 million, Kobach said.

    The wall spans an area of about a half-mile near Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, New Mexico, that was not covered by existing government fencing — a decision that was made at least partially because of the rough terrain.

    Kobach said Border Patrol agents in the area have told him that hundreds of immigrants have crossed there illegally and more than $100,000 worth of drugs has been smuggled through the gap.

    Gap in barrier at Sunland Park, NM
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol, does not provide statistics on specific areas of land, but has reported an increase in apprehensions of immigrants, primarily families, in the El Paso Sector, which covers West Texas and all of New Mexico.

    Groups of hundreds have turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents just past where the fencing ends in Sunland Park, including a group of 300 who crossed the same night Trump held a rally in nearby El Paso.

    Ninety percent of all illegal narcotics that enter the United States cross through the southern border, according to the CBP.

    “It is a half-mile, but it is a half-mile that is so important,” Kobach said. “I would argue that this half-mile is much more important than building 20 or 50 miles out in the desert, because of very few people are crossing in the middle of the desert. But here, you are this metropolitan area and so easy for people to swarm through this gap. This half-mile area has much more of an impact than you would think.”


    The privately funded wall, which is expected to be completed Wednesday, is more than 20 feet tall and goes up a 300 foot incline over mountainous terrain. It extends 7 feet into the ground.

    It includes sensors and lights that will go off when triggered by anyone crossing the area, Kobach said. The group will give control of the sensors to U.S. Border Patrol agents, he said. Although, the group has not discussed those plans with the agency yet.

    Average donor gave $67, Kobach says

    The wall is being paid completely by the GoFundMe campaign created by the group in December. Kobach said the average donor gave about $67, and more than 265,000 donated.

    "The GoFundMe just took off with $20 million in 20 days," Kobach said. "This shows collectively how we the people can say, 'You know what, this isn't rocket science. We can solve this problem.' And when a whole bunch of people chip in money, you can accomplish something like this."

    While the El Paso wall will use about a third of the money raised so far, Kobach said the remaining money will be used to build a similar wall in another area along the U.S.-Mexico border.

    Kobach declined to say where the next segment of wall will be built, to protect the identity of the owner of that property.

    About the privately built wall
    The privately built wall is similar to the $73 million bollard wall constructed by the U.S. government in April 2018 along the U.S.-Mexico border in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

    However, Kobach said the private group's wall is made from weathered steel and would last 50 years longer than the "mild" steel used on government fencing.

    The U.S. government wall is between 18 and 30 feet tall, depending on the terrain, and has anti-scaling plates at the top to make it more difficult to climb over, U.S. Border Patrol officials said at the time a groundbreaking ceremony was held for start of the construction.

    The privately built wall is being constructed by Fisher Industries of North Dakota, Kobach said.
     
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    Any money from that should go into the United States General Fund to pay for all of El Chapo's damage done to our country.
     

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