Border Patrol Agents, the Only True Experts, Lament Wall Construction Halt
By Todd Bensman on February 3, 2021
DEMING, N.M. — Just over the horizon from this high-desert town, an order from newly seated President Joe Biden last week halted westward construction of his predecessor's border wall. A mile or so down the line, at a section building eastward to connect with it, construction also ended. The "pause" orders from distant Washington, where "experts" insist border walls don't work, left a mile-wide open corridor here that would have been closed in another month or so.
In the shadow of a last installed panel, a U.S. Border Patrol agent left responsible for covering that mile-wide gap wondered who all these "experts" are who constantly insist walls don't work against illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
"You hear TV, and they would say, 'well the experts say the wall isn't effective,' and I never understood who these experts were," said the agent. "Because all of our data says, you know, 90 percent effective rate ... dropping of crossings ... increased apprehensions and all of that. And it's like, well who are these experts to say it wasn't effective and what are they basing that on? You know, they never really specify."
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