A conservative news site reports on a GAO report that the border wall was breached some 9000 times over six years

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Here is CNN’s report on the same study

Border Wall Breached 9,000 times. Does it even work? | CNN Politics

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has not measured the success of the current fence between the United States and Mexico, according to a government watchdog.

CNN

Here is the GAO report itself

Southwest Border Security: Additional Actions Needed to Better Assess Fencing's Contributions to Operations and Provide Guidance for Identifying Capability Gaps

What GAO Found Border fencing is intended to benefit border security operations in various ways, according to officials from the U.S. Border Patrol...

www.gao.gov

All reasons why a fence might be more expensive than we think…

Sunk Costs

Trump’s wall is running taxpayers a cool $25 million per mile, up nearly fourfold from just a decade ago. But all that’s only part of the story.

The Texas Observer