TX community college’s border wall proves barriers work to stop crossings, drug smugglers
January 24, 2019
By Victor Skinner
There’s a community college in Texas that’s offering lessons about border security amid the heated national debate about President Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but it’s not for credit and students won’t find it in the course schedule.
All they have to do is take a look along the southern boundary of the Laredo Community College campus, which is one of the only places in the area protected by a wall. Matt Pinsker, a national security expert and professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, described his time riding along with Border Patrol as a new prosecutor, and how the eight-foot-tall steel “fence†transformed what was previously a prime crossing and drug trafficking point into a safe haven for students.
In a column for the National Review, Pinkster explained that “college administrators were inundated with phone calls about illegal aliens cutting across its campus. Though most aliens were nonviolent and left the students alone, not all of them did. There were thefts, assaults, robberies, and more.â€
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