Video Shows Women Climbing U.S.-Mexico Border Fence in Less Than 18 Seconds
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Less than 18 seconds. That's how long it took two young women to climb a U.S.-Mexico border fence that costs millions of dollars in taxpayer money.
In a video shot by filmmaker Roy Germano, two women show how easy it is to reach the top by climbing the fence's concrete-filled steel pipes in less than 18 seconds, MyFoxHouston.com reports.
The video -- which asks the question "Is it worth the expense?" -- was shown to an immigrant advocate who acknowledged that the portion of fence in question is poorly designed. The barrier costs taxpayers on average about $4 million per mile of border fence, according to the station.
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"Huge amounts of money being poured into this, and we haven't really seen progress," Houston immigrant advocate Cesar Espinosa told the station.
"We need to have a combination of high technology predator drones. We need additional manpower along the border, and then where appropriate we need to build these double-layered secure fences to actually secure the border," Espinosa said.
Bob Price, of U.S. Border Watch, called the video "misleading" in an interview with MyFoxHouston.
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"If that's what we are spending our money on, I would say that's right, but that's not what was called for in the Secure Fence Act," Price said.
The 2006 Secure Fence Act called for a double-layer fence and motion detectors, but the project has been dying a slow death.
Price pointed to another online video that shows portions of the border fence that are properly built -- and have effectively reduced border crossing by as much as 95 percent.
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Click to read the story about the border fence crossings from MyFoxHouston.com