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As border tightens, smugglers raise their game
« on: March 14, 2017, 09:58:43 pm »
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As border tightens, smugglers raise their game





 By Tim Gaynor | NACO, Arizona

When U.S. authorities raised a tall curtain of steel through this tiny Arizona border town to prevent people crossing illegally from Mexico, the smugglers on the south side were ready.

Using blowtorches and welding gear they burned a rectangular gate in the barrier large enough to drive a truck through, then they sealed it with a padlock to use it at their leisure, border police say.

As the U.S. government pushes ahead with an unprecedented security buildup along the porous Mexico border in this presidential election year, profit-hungry Mexican drug and human smugglers the length of the line are raising their game.

Continued: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSN0662194320080310

We aren't going to mine the land but short of that, what can really be effective?

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Re: As border tightens, smugglers raise their game
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2017, 02:16:58 am »
TomSea asks:
"We aren't going to mine the land but short of that, what can really be effective?"

How 'bout this?

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Re: As border tightens, smugglers raise their game
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2017, 02:42:54 pm »
We aren't going to mine the land but short of that, what can really be effective?

Pay-per-view remotely operated machine guns?
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Re: As border tightens, smugglers raise their game
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2017, 04:52:13 pm »
Pay-per-view remotely operated machine guns?

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Re: As border tightens, smugglers raise their game
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2017, 04:55:17 pm »
US's border is so much longer than most borders with walls out there, maybe the Hungarians have something effective and it went up fairly fast.

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Re: As border tightens, smugglers raise their game
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2017, 05:23:28 pm »
US's border is so much longer than most borders with walls out there, maybe the Hungarians have something effective and it went up fairly fast.

The Great Wall of China totals over 13,000 miles.
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Re: As border tightens, smugglers raise their game
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2017, 10:37:04 pm »
We aren't going to mine the land but short of that, what can really be effective?
Can we arm drones with tear gas or some other kind of non lethal ammo?
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Re: As border tightens, smugglers raise their game
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2017, 02:11:56 am »
Pay-per-view remotely operated machine guns?
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