By Lndia Valdez
Arizona Republica
The news brings us two recent examples of why border walls don’t work. Can someone alert Donald Trump?
Exhibit A comes from the Border Patrol, which issued a press release April 6 asking people to be on the lookout for drones.
“The Yuma Sector Border Patrol has recently encountered small remote controlled aircraft, commonly referred to as drones, being used to smuggle drugs into the United States. The drones vary in size, but are commonly between 2 to 4 feet wide,” it says.
“Drones have been observed primarily in the San Luis area,” the press release continues. “They are known to carry illegal contraband into the U.S. where it is dropped and picked up by smugglers north of the border.”
They included a picture of a drone so everyone would know what to look for. No word on whether the drone in the picture was one captured at the border.
Here’s the rub: The Yuma Sector is the go-to place when border-hawk politicians want to point to a place where fencing has led to “operational control.”
Guess what? The smugglers figured out a way over.
Exhibit B in this tutorial on why walls don’t work comes from a widely viewed video showing would-be smugglers easily scaling a border fence – in full view of Border Patrol agents – then skedaddling back into Mexico when they realize they were being filmed, according to the Associated Press.
Border Patrol spokesman Mark Landess told AP it’s not uncommon for smugglers to scale the steel fence, especially around Nogales, which is a busy drug-smuggling corridor.
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