Tunnel near San Diego
A story today about a tunnel found near San Diego.
Continue reading →A story today about a tunnel found near San Diego.
Continue reading →A story about what happens when a border wall prototype was tested with a steel saw.
Continue reading →The figured being suggested for border wall funding are large. Corruption has been found in some of the past border wall building efforts. Some have gone so far as to question whether Trump or Trump cronys might personally profit. Certainly … Continue reading →
Another drug tunnel was recently found near Nogales.
Continue reading →There are nine congressional districts along the US/Mexico border. All of them have representatives who oppose a border wall from sea to sea. Many of them are willing to discuss notions of ‘border security’ but are careful to point out … Continue reading →
There is a gofundme campaign to raise money for ladders to get over the wall. The effort is somewhat tongue in cheek and also a reaction to the separate gofundme that was supposed to raise money for the wall. That … Continue reading →
Recent NPR program this references data that was published last year from the Department of Homeland Security.
Continue reading →Remember the Secure Fence Act of 2006. If you read the text it is pretty specific about having the DHS work towards at least two layers of fencing all the way from 15 miles before Laredo to the Brownsville port … Continue reading →
Building a border wall will likely involve taking private land, potentially a lot of land. When the landowners don’t want to sell, the government can invoke eminent domain. The following site provides background of what happened in one such famous … Continue reading →
As the deadlock over the border wall continues, President Trump has suggested building the wall from steel instead of concrete as a “compromise”. It is unclear that this particularly alters the politics or necessarily the engineering parameters so from a … Continue reading →