Article from Australia summarizing the wall situation
In general the asylum seekers are used to scare political constituency into supporting a nationalistic policy … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: El Paso
Emerging from a tunnel in middle of downtown El Paso
Three men appear from a manhole in middle of an intersection. Details are still being identified … Continue reading →
May apprehension numbers
May apprehension numbers are 144,000. Of particular contrast are those in El Paso sector. In the El Paso sector, U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 13,284 unaccompanied children, 104,131 family units and 19,507 single adults in May 2019, compared to 3,141 unaccompanied … Continue reading →
Group of 1036 near El Paso
A group of 1036 migrants, mostly families crossed near El Paso. This is the largest single group so far. There were ~1800 or so in El Paso on Memorial Day. This fiscal year to date, agents in the El Paso … Continue reading →
Privately funded wall near El Paso
Somewhat less than a mile of border fence is built near El Paso. In my opinion, what a private landowner does on their own property is mostly their own business. However, it will be interesting to see if it is … Continue reading →
Scaling the wall with a ladder
A vidoo of immigrants scaling a wall with a ladder. This was in an urban area (El Paso) where they could be spotted by cameras and have border patrol agents nearby. How would this work in more desolate parts of … Continue reading →
Under the bridge in El Paso
An account of temporary holding pen under a bridge in El Paso. This particular holding pen didn’t last long before it was disbanded. Apparently, the optics weren’t good. There is some discussion as well on whether it was strictly necessary … Continue reading →
Asylum seekers
A somewhat counter-intuitive effect of the wall. These migrants aren’t trying to cross the wall. Instead, because the wall is on US territory, they are standing next to it and waiting for the border patrol to arrest them. More than … Continue reading →
More pushback on hysteria in the border region
Nogales (AZ) is fighting to remove concertina wire placed there in the last round of hysteria New Mexico is withdrawing the National Guard and asking other states to also do this in New Mexico Meanwhile El Paso is pushing back … Continue reading →
The Great Wall of San Antonio
The President recently cited an example of San Antonio as support for a border wall. “Everybody knows that walls work. You look at different places they put up a wall, no problem. You look at San Antonio,” Trump said. “You … Continue reading →