Border Patrol tops border wall in El Paso with concertina wire

[TexasTowelie]

Construction workers are topping the U.S.-Mexico border wall in El Paso with reams of concertina wire, creating a dangerous additional obstacle to illegal crossings.

The U.S. Border Patrol's El Paso Sector put up the razor wire "to dissuade individuals from scaling the border wall and to reduce the risk of injuries sustained from falling off the barrier," said Roger Maier, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Patrol's parent agency.

"It is an added obstacle," he said in an email. "It also extends the time for agents to respond by adding to the amount of time it may take some who is entering illegally to disappear into the community."

The wire is going up along a stretch of now 30-foot barrier between El Paso's Downtown Paso del Norte bridge and the Bridge of the Americas, Maier said. He couldn't immediately say whether the razor wire is part of the original replacement-barrier contract or separate.

Read more: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2020/11/23/border-patrol-tops-border-fence-razor-wire-deter-crossings-el-paso/6391167002/

[llashram]

1. I hope President-elect Biden

cleans out those nest of vipers called the border patrol. They took children from their parents with which over 600 children will never be reunited with their families. And President-elect Biden tear down that wall.