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from the if-you-build-it-they-will-come...and-cut-through-it dept.
Smugglers have found an easy way to get through the vertical steel tube Mexican border wall. From https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html
The breaches have been made using a popular cordless household tool known as a reciprocating saw that retails at hardware stores for as little as $100. When fitted with specialized blades, the saws can slice through one of the barrier's steel-and-concrete bollards in minutes, according to the agents, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the barrier-defeating techniques.
After cutting through the base of a single bollard, smugglers can push the steel out of the way, creating an adult-size gap. Because the bollards are so tall — and are attached only to a panel at the top — their length makes them easier to push aside once they have been cut and are left dangling, according to engineers consulted by The Washington Post.
The taxpayer-funded barrier — so far coming with a $10 billion price tag — was a central theme of Trump's 2016 campaign, and he has made the project a physical symbol of his presidency, touting its construction progress in speeches, ads and tweets. Trump has increasingly boasted to crowds in recent weeks about the superlative properties of the barrier, calling it "virtually impenetrable" and likening the structure to a "Rolls-Royce" that border crossers cannot get over, under or through.
In other words, no one did any serious pen testing on the wall design, or it would have been obvious that with all that leverage, the top tie-in was easy to flex.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @04:42AM (2 children)
Look, there is no way the US is going to hire enough guards to really control the border. But we don't have to. The problem of denying access to large portions of land have already been largely solved.
It's called a minefield.
Build a fence on the border, hang signs up on it that say "If you cross this fence, you will die". Add pictographs for the illiterates. Behind the fence build a road (for access and maintenance). Then another fence. Then a two mile wide area filled randomly with landmines. Then another fence. Send copters over occasionally to replenish any mines that get triggered.
This will never happen, of course, because Americans in general no longer have the willingness to kill to protect their land. This is why they will lose it, and be conquered by those who are perfectly happy to kill.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday November 05 2019, @02:00PM
Goddam. Another advocate for MURDERING people fleeing from oppression.
May you as well end up on the business end of your own suggestion.
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 05 2019, @04:57PM
And, y'know, because 4 fences, routine helicopter patrols, and a metric assload of mines is fucking expensive
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