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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @07:42PM (2 children)
Yeah. I've been there. You're wrong. About them, about what culture is, that yours is better, and that America somehow means "adopt our culture or fuck off."
You're an idiot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @07:42PM
No, revision.... You're not an idiot, and I know that.
But you're not right.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 07 2019, @11:16PM
Good for you. I've been lived around and worked with more legals and illegals than I can count, so you're not any more an authority than I am for having hit some tourist spots on vacation.
Here's what Teddy "the enormous hippie" Roosevelt had to say on the matter:
My rights don't end where your fear begins.