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Whatever adjectives you might use to describe a border wall ― big or perhaps even beautiful ― readily stolen is not likely one of them.
Unnamed Mexican officials told San Diegos KUSI-TV that 15 to 20 people have been arrested for stealing concertina wire from the U.S.-Mexico border and selling it to security-minded homeowners in Tijuana.
U.S. troops installed the fencing in November 2018 at the urging of President Donald Trump, who was concerned about a caravan of migrants.
We have detected that the barbed wire that was installed in the border area is no longer there, Marco Antonio Sotomayor Amezcua, the secretary of public safety in Tijuana, confirmed to the San Diego Union-Tribune. We know about the stealing of the concertina [wire] from United States authorities who have asked us for help through the liaison staff.
Though Mexican authorities told the Union-Tribune that those arrested were mostly Mexican citizens, one Tijuana resident who had the wire installed said the man who sold it to her sure didnt seem Mexican.
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shanny
(6,709 posts)Was recently south of the border and got a new t-shirt: be happy: you're on the right side of the wall
malaise
(269,157 posts)our park was completely surrounded with wire - not the concertina wire - just regular wire three feet high. It stood there for more than two decades until one afternoon we showed up and realized that every bit of wire (poles and all) were stolen overnight.
Thankfully we had planted a hedge on the inside of the park/football field. Someone else decided they needed our fence.