Border Patrol tops border wall in El Paso with concertina wire

[Elderberry]

American Military News by Lauren Villagran - El Paso Times   December 06, 2020

Construction workers are topping the U.S.-Mexico border wall in El Paso with reams of concertina wire, creating a dangerous additional obstacle to illegal crossings.

The U.S. Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector put up the razor wire “to dissuade individuals from scaling the border wall and to reduce the risk of injuries sustained from falling off the barrier,” said Roger Maier, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Patrol’s parent agency.

“It is an added obstacle,” he said in an email. “It also extends the time for agents to respond by adding to the amount of time it may take some who is entering illegally to disappear into the community.”

The wire is going up along a stretch of now 30-foot barrier between El Paso’s Downtown Paso del Norte bridge and the Bridge of the Americas, Maier said. He couldn’t immediately say whether the razor wire is part of the original replacement-barrier contract or separate.

As border security measures increase, migrants’ attempts to enter the U.S. undetected have become more risky.

More: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/12/border-patrol-tops-border-wall-in-el-paso-with-concertina-wire/

[Victoria33]

Looked at the picture.  That is double razor wire, one on top of the other.  Foolish to try to get over that.

[libertybele]

Looked at the picture.  That is double razor wire, one on top of the other.  Foolish to try to get over that.

This is what is needed on our entire border.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This is what is needed on our entire border.

I could use that around my house to keep out the pesky neighbor riff raff as well.

Just have to figure out how to allow Fedex and UPS to deliver, though.

[Smokin Joe]

This is what is needed on our entire border.

And we'll have it as soon as the Democrats decide they want to keep us in...