Razor Sharp Wire added to Border Fence
Last Update: 5/17 9:13 pm
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It's attacks with rocks used to disarm, disable and crack the skulls of U-S Border Patrol agents.
It's women and children pushed to physical limits by dehydration and injury, that have led to the new wire.
Three strands of razor sharp wire, along one point two miles of the country's *most* violent section of the border.
The "concertina" wire went up in December on a trial basis, and after five months
the border patrol says the impact has been so significant, the concertina will run continuously for five miles between Otay Mesa and San Ysidro.
In fact, the border patrol says the number of injuries to illegals coming over the fence has decreased by nearly half since the concertina went up. Assaults on border patrol agents have gone down 53 percent. And the number of people coming across illegally has decreased by 61 percent.
But Immigration rights advocate Enrique Morones says the concertina is just forcing illegals to cross in more extreme and rural areas. He says it doesn't get to the bottom of the immigration problem. "Putting barbed wire, builiding more wires. It's not going to stop the flow of the undocumented people coming here."
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Last Update: 5/17 9:13 pm
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It's attacks with rocks used to disarm, disable and crack the skulls of U-S Border Patrol agents.
It's women and children pushed to physical limits by dehydration and injury, that have led to the new wire.
Three strands of razor sharp wire, along one point two miles of the country's *most* violent section of the border.
The "concertina" wire went up in December on a trial basis, and after five months
the border patrol says the impact has been so significant, the concertina will run continuously for five miles between Otay Mesa and San Ysidro.
In fact, the border patrol says the number of injuries to illegals coming over the fence has decreased by nearly half since the concertina went up. Assaults on border patrol agents have gone down 53 percent. And the number of people coming across illegally has decreased by 61 percent.
But Immigration rights advocate Enrique Morones says the concertina is just forcing illegals to cross in more extreme and rural areas. He says it doesn't get to the bottom of the immigration problem. "Putting barbed wire, builiding more wires. It's not going to stop the flow of the undocumented people coming here."
http://www.fox6.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=b412fe39-a5d2-4005-a765-aa0ab706e766&rss=tick