Texas uses shipping containers to create "steel wall" next to international bridge at Eagle Pass

[TexasTowelie]

by Uriel J. García, Texas Tribune


Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted a video Wednesday of the state’s latest attempt to secure the Texas-Mexico border: about 20 shipping containers lined up along the riverbank next to the international bridge that connects Eagle Pass with Mexico. Behind the containers, the images showed a fleet of Department of Public Safety patrol cars and dozens of officers walking around.

Abbott described it as a “steel wall” designed “to protect communities & property owners.”

Link to tweet

Abbott had touted the idea of using shipping containers at the border on Oct. 28 when he was a guest on a Fox News program and said that starting that day the National Guard and DPS began placing containers at potential migrant crossing points “to serve as a blockade to prevent [migrants] from coming across the border.”

Abbott, who is up for reelection next year, has made immigration enforcement a priority for his administration, pushing an agenda that includes building more barriers along the Texas-Mexico border, directing troopers to arrest migrants crossing the Rio Grande on state charges, deploying the National Guard to different parts of the border and suing the Biden administration for what the governor has described as President Joe Biden’s open-border policies.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/18/texas-border-shipping-containers-eagle-pass/

Let's do the math. 20 shipping containers x 53 foot length per container = 1,060 feet. That's less than 1/4 of a mile. Greg has a lot more work to do if he wants to build his wall.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. In today's episode of Christofascist Hero Cult Theater...

[fwvinson]

2. Those will be easier to climb over with alot of cover. Gets real dark at night.

[TexasTowelie]

3. No need to do that.

The border crossers just move a half-mile either upstream or downstream and they avoid having to climb anything.

[Javaman]

4. if they aren't filled with anything you can use a bottle jack to lift them.

easy to climb over, easy to dig under

more texas kabuki theater.

[TexasTowelie]

5. Why go over (or under) when you can go around instead?

I don't see any wisdom in trying to climb over cargo containers when you don't know what is on the other side waiting for you. It's much easier to move around the wall and get a panoramic view of the situation including places to hide after crossing the river.

I agree wholeheartedly with your last sentence.