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Undaunted by Trump's wall, migrants vow to go over it
Yahoo News and AFP ^ | 13 Mar 18 | Yemeli ORTEGA

Posted on 03/13/2018 5:05:21 AM PDT by SkyPilot

A man jogs on the Mexican side of the Mexico-US border in Tijuana, from where prototypes of the wall that US President Donald Trump wants to build are visible

Eladio Sanchez is unimpressed by the eight border wall prototypes looming over his house in Tijuana, Mexico, almost within spitting distance of where US President Donald Trump will visit Tuesday.

At age 30, he has already snuck over the border several times, and doesn't expect Trump's wall will have much effect on undocumented migrants like him.

Pointing to the only prototype with an angular barrier at the top -- a concrete structure built by Texas Sterling Construction Company -- Sanchez says that one might slow him down a little more than the others.

But, he told AFP, "you can get over it anyway."

"It's just a little more complicated. But people are always looking for a way to get over -- out of necessity, not because we want to."

In Tijuana, Trump's visit to the prototypes looks like just the latest slap in the face from a man who launched his presidential campaign calling Mexican immigrants "criminals" and "rapists" and has since driven US-Mexican relations to their lowest point in recent memory.

It's as if "he wants to come just to tell us he's here, that he's going to do what he promised with the wall," says Sanchez, who lives in a small gray house in a poor neighborhood that juts up against the border, across from Otay Mesa, on the outskirts of San Diego.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: illegals; immigration; mexico; wall
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To: SkyPilot
undocumented migrant

... instead of the accurate (i.e., truthful) term "illegal alien" ... though "yahoo" news is appropriately named.

41 posted on 03/13/2018 7:40:20 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: luvbach1

Have not heard or read a follow-up on this.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Several of them could not be scaled without actually poinding pitons into the concrete, and they would not hold most of the time.

They were not scale-able as tested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BlD61vodZI


42 posted on 03/13/2018 7:41:01 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: BobL

lol, I kinda agree. If they are training like and Olympian to climb over all of that, then maybe they can try that hard to stay off food stamps.


43 posted on 03/13/2018 7:45:26 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Thibodeaux

I would prefer they use 2800 - 3000 volts on the walls.


44 posted on 03/13/2018 7:51:09 AM PDT by FrodoBaggins
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To: SkyPilot

Meanwhile, the politicians who support illegals live in mostly white, wealthy neighborhoods.


45 posted on 03/13/2018 7:52:38 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Cowboy Bob

I don’t think you have to shoot more than a few to get the message out. My question is which side of the fence does the body need to drop?


46 posted on 03/13/2018 7:53:27 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: Iron Munro

Haha, that’s funny. :D


47 posted on 03/13/2018 7:56:44 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: SkyPilot

‘Everything is more difficult with Trump. He’s more racist’

Racist really? The illegals just using Dem talking points. Trump is married to a LEGAL immigrant. I guess Trump’s crackdown on illegals has NOTHING to do with the FACT that they are in the USA ILLEGALLY.


48 posted on 03/13/2018 8:11:55 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: SkyPilot

Electrify the wall.


49 posted on 03/13/2018 8:13:34 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Candor7
Several of them could not be scaled without actually poinding pitons into the concrete, and they would not hold most of the time.

My conclusion: Most illegal aliens will not be able to scale the chosen wall.

50 posted on 03/13/2018 9:34:50 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Candor7

Ramset Cobra+ 0.27 Caliber Semi Automatic Powder Actuated Tool concrete nail driver.


51 posted on 03/13/2018 9:57:12 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: SkyPilot

52 posted on 03/13/2018 10:00:24 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: SkyPilot

This makes me want to do things I can’t say on this forum (or any other).


53 posted on 03/13/2018 10:11:53 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: SkyPilot
(Graphic from during 2015-16 campaign)
54 posted on 03/13/2018 10:25:18 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: eartick

From what I understand, it can only become a felony if a person re-enters after having been deported.


55 posted on 03/13/2018 10:29:10 AM PDT by houeto
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To: jdsteel
(Don’t you know what illegal means?)

Of course I do. Illegal means undocumented. </s>

56 posted on 03/13/2018 10:30:12 AM PDT by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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To: SkyPilot
Undaunted by Trump's wall, migrants CRIMINAL ALIENS vow to go over it

The truth hurts!

57 posted on 03/13/2018 10:31:36 AM PDT by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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To: BobL
but good luck getting the wife across to have anchor babies.

Don't be silly they run regular medical vans down to pick them up and bring them across.

58 posted on 03/13/2018 10:31:58 AM PDT by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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To: robel
Make it so there are severe penalties just for being here illegally, and no benefits. You wouldn’t even need a wall.

I have been saying that ever sense they shut down Operation Wetback.

59 posted on 03/13/2018 10:35:02 AM PDT by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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To: BobL

An athletic, fit person is going to have a much easier go at scaling such a wall than will one who is not.


60 posted on 03/13/2018 10:35:58 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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