“We have to protect our property and we will do whatever is necessary to ensure there is no wall,” said Laredo Mayor Raul Salinas, a former FBI agent.
Apr 292006
TIJUANA, Mexico, – Hurling himself over a steel fence into the no-man’s-land between Mexico and California, an undocumented migrant sprints across a narrow strip lit by harsh arc lights and watched over by video cameras on tall posts. Before he can shin up a second barrier of tall concrete pillars topped with seismic sensors and a layer of steel mesh more than an arm’s-length wide, U.S. Border Patrol agents close in fast and arrest him . That scene is repeated dozens of times each day along a 14-mile stretch of state-of-the-art fencing separating San Diego, California, from Tijuana, Mexico, that ….Read More
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