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As border tightens, smugglers raise their game By Tim Gaynor | NACO, ArizonaWhen 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
http://www.yumasun.com/truck-ramp-shows-ingenuity-of-drug-smugglers-police-official/article_1724c2d4-e788-58e8-87ac-b6fc4dc56df1.html
We aren't going to mine the land but short of that, what can really be effective?
Pay-per-view remotely operated machine guns?
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.