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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Section of Trump Border Wall in Texas Cost $27 Million a Mile. It's Being Foiled by $5 Ladders
Every month for the past decade, Scott Nicol, a 51-year-old artist and activist, has set out from his home in McAllen to roam the Rio Grande Valley in search of ladders used to scale the border wall in South Texas. On a cool and overcast day in early April, Nicol has centered his hunt on an eight-mile stretch of border between the towns of Hidalgo and Granjeno, where an Obama-era wall meets up with a newly constructed piece of Trumps wall.
The first stop of the day brings him to a dirt field behind a flea market in Hidalgo. A pair of green and white Border Patrol SUVs are parked atop the eighteen-foot-high concrete levee wall, next to a section of bollard-style fence with a closed gate, their noses pointed toward the Rio Grande. Within minutes, Nicol has spotted a ladder roughly halfway up the levee; its about a dozen feet long and has only six rungs.
Its made of cheap, rough wood, quickly nailed together because it is only going to be used once, Nicol says. Unlike the wall, these ladders are functional.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/trump-border-wall-ladders/
gab13by13
(21,363 posts)634-5789
(4,175 posts)Fence, wall, tomatoes, tomatoes.
Irish_Dem
(47,160 posts)How much was Trump's kickback?
doc03
(35,354 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,160 posts)niyad
(113,460 posts)50 ft wall, meet 51 ft ladder.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)to blow that 50 ft. wall down. No ladders needed.
Mr. Evil
(2,851 posts)You just know Tr***'* fence additions weren't up to code.
They were built as cheaply as possible to maximize the kickbacks.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)I'll see if I can find the story and post it later. Gotta' run right now.
Or while they are constructing the fence during the day, the migrants are digging a tunnel at night.
Just another All-American big money grab boondoggle.
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Takket
(21,582 posts)Biden is right that the solution to refugees streaming to America isn't on our border but it is in the countries the people are coming from. We need to help and incentivize those nations to clean up the gangs and corruption that is giving people the choice to walk to the USA or die.
Lonestarblue
(10,024 posts)They go to cities where there is no work and then on to the US.