Washington Post: Border agents say smugglers in Mexico are sawing through parts of Trump's border wa

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  1. signalmankenneth

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    Washington Post: Border agents say smugglers in Mexico are sawing through parts of Trump's border wall

    So much for Trump's impenetrable border wall?!!

    Washington (CNN)Smuggling gangs in Mexico have been able to breach new sections of President Donald Trump's border wall in recent months, according to a new report from The Washington Post.

    Citing US agents and officials with knowledge of the damage, the Post reported that smugglers have been using reciprocating saws to cut through the steel and concrete portions of the wall, creating openings wide enough for people and drugs to be smuggled through.

    The agents told the Post the saws can cut through the bollards in a matter of minutes. Engineers told the newspaper that because of the height of the bollards, which are between 18 to 30 feet tall, it's easier to push the steel out of the way to pass through the other side.

    Trump said he hadn't heard reports about cutting through the border wall, but, he added, "you can cut through anything."

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/02/politics/smugglers-saw-through-trump-border-wall/index.html

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    The wall is still better than nothing. What's the left's position, to just let them cross at will? And I thought most drugs come through ports of entry and the illegals we need to bus our tables came across in the open desert. I guess the left was wrong yet again.

    I swear, it's like the left is rooting for the illegals and not the safety of Americans.
     
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    wapo? people still read that?
     
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    Why does the right always feel duty bound to go to extremes?
    - just let them cross at will?
    - it's like the left is rooting for the illegals and not the safety of Americans.

    Does anyone really talk that way? Do Trump supporters every check the numbers and see that illegal crossings were at a 50 year low under Obama, but skyrocketed under Trump? Why won't the right 'splain that?

    Here's what I'm rooting for -- the kind of legal immigration where the spirit is captured on Ellis Island. Easily breached fences are monument to the stupidity of man. That's what Gen. George Patton said about France's Maginot line. He'd look at Trump's fence, shake his head and laugh. Face it, Trump's fence is a monument to Trump and we know what four star George would say about that.
     
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    Especially since it's paid for by Mexico.
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    If there was no barrier for the illegals to cut through they would be able to cross at will, what would stop them?

    The left supported the caravans, they decided to relabel illegals as refugees and literally escorted them across the border. Plus the left fights deportations in their sanctuary cities by either pardoning them for their deportable crimes or when liberal judges literally assist illegals to sneak out the back doors of court houses so ICE can’t nab them.

    Yes, the left is rooting for the illegals and have done so ever since the DNC stated that Latinos are the future of their party.
     
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    Do you question who provides for your safety?
     
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    LOL, petty libs are reduced to whining that the wall has 99%, not 100% success rate and that Mexico is not paying for the wall protecting our southern border, it's paying for the Mexican army protecting out southern border

    LOL :D
     
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    With respect -- I don't know where you get half this stuff.
     
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    -Sanctuary cites,
    -Let illegals know when ICE doing raids
    -Not letting ICE know when their is a illegal about to be released form custody.
     
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    I had never heard it (or seen it) anywhere before he posted it.

    My only possible conclusion is that he made it up out of whole cloth.

    Merely an "opinion" with no basis in fact. :salute:
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    All the things I mentioned were in threads on this board.
     
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    The fact I think trump's wall is stupid doesn't mean I'm rooting for the illegals. I do think the illegals are now helping to prove that trump's wall is stupid and our government should stop wasting money on a wall and instead spend the money on methods recommended by the experts and not the method wanted by the lone retarded pervert in the White House.
     
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    Why exactly is this news? Of course they are cutting through the wall did anybody honestly believe they wouldn't cut through it or dig under it or something? Did folks think these billion dollar cartels would just be like "Aw shucks there's a wall there now, pack it up boys shows over we had a good run".

    Is this supposed to be some sort of evidence in support of the wall not being effective therefore unnecessary or something?

    Local News: Armed robber kicks in door and robs family last night.

    Logic being demonstrated here: Might as well stop installing front doors in homes now, folks can obviously just kick them in if they really wanted to.

    How much sense does that make?
     
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    Huh?

    In the Humor Section? Conspiracy Section? Where? Exactly?
     
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    Its not intended to make sense-Orange man is bad.
     
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    Prison walks alone don’t stop prisoners from escaping, guards, sensors and cameras are also used. We could seal the border if we really wanted to. The left doesn’t. That’s right, no matter what the left says, they do not want the border secured. Actions speak louder than words and even the left”s words say they don’t want a secured border.

    And if Trump decided to do what the ‘experts’ say the left would still complain about it.

    The left has shown their hand when it comes to illegals.
     
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    Which example would you like me to cite?
     
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    :roflol:

    YET, all of these "Border Breaches" and "Marauding Hordes" (Since Jan. 20, 2017) have happened on TRUMP'S WATCH!

    So? Why are you blaming "The Left".:bored:
     
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    To be fair it doesn't seem like the Right is as enthusiastic about border security as they claim either. For 2 years Republicans controlled the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office with Trump at the helm yet they waited until Pelosi and company took the House to try to vote this wall funding in and deal with Democrats being able to have a say so. I still can't figure out why exactly they waited for that.
     
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    What's all this 'left' sh--. The experts say the wall isn't the way to do it. The illegals are now proving to us the wall isn't the way to do it. What is it you're having difficulty understanding? As I said (try reading this) the left doesn't want open borders. The left wants secure borders and trump doesn't know what he's talking about. Why would anyone expect anything better from a retard?
     
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    Actually by your own admission it was a judge that decided to deny funds for The Wall that Trump wants -

    - and you called it a "Great decision." So yeah, I guess we should blame "The Left" since you yourself were okay with this decision, because otherwise we'd have a bit more of a defense system in play here.
     
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    Yeah...too many on the right seem to be all talk and no action.
     
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    Ok, so what do the experts say is the way to do it? And if a wall isn’t part of the solution then why do prisons use them?

    And yes, the left wants open borders and illegal immigration. Why else would they support sanctuary cities and want to defund ICE?
     
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    A double wall of electrified fencing and gun turrets would work
     
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