Mexicans see models of Trump's 'impenetrable' wall, and they're not impressed

[DonViejo]

By Joshua Partlow October 16 at 2:26 PM

SAN DIEGO — 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.

“People are still going to cross no matter what is there,” said Kevin Ávila Rodríguez, 17, who recycles trash and lives near the spot where the border wall prototypes are being built. “This won’t change things much.”



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[DetlefK]

1. A cross-bow, a hook and a rope and you can climb it.

And Hamas has been digging tunnels forever. The whole Gaza-strip is a network of tunnels. Tunneling under the wall is not an "if", it's a "when".

[lagomorph777]

2. Does Turd understand that the current wall is see-thru for a reason?

Agents need to see who's on the other side, and what they might be preparing to do (whether climb over or lob rocks and grenades).

[Luz]

8. I believe dear leader warned of 50 lb bags of drugs.

[lagomorph777]

10. Yeah I'd hate to have one of those land on me.

I'd prefer to see it coming if I was a CBP Agent.

[ProudLib72]

3. Give me a few supplies and four hours

I can make a permanent ladder over it that thousands can use.

[Lifelong Protester]

4. Human nature always gets around walls.

[Initech]

5. You make a 30 foot wall, someone's gonna build a 40 foot catapult.

[FSogol]

6. They probably understand, unlike Trumpy & the Deplorables, that most "illegal" immigrants

come into the country legally and overstay their tourist, school, or work visas and that all the border walls in the world won't stop that.

[scarytomcat]

7. It is real simple, if you don't won't people coming here and working without documentation

fine the companies that hire them
if there are not jobs you don't need a wall
all the rest of the world restricts immigration
why not us?

[Gothmog]

9. No one is impressed