The photos of the U.S.-Mexican border show a complex landscape characterized by a variety of barriers - with differing functions - as well as geographic and human features. The tweets allude to the challenges of an additional border wall, the effectiveness of existing barriers, and obstacles facing law enforcement agencies.
See the tweets below
Not much @POTUS can add to Arizona wall. 210 of 262 miles of Tucson Sector already has wall/fence/vehicle barrier. pic.twitter.com/cL4zebfD4z
— Michel Marizco (@BorderReporter) January 25, 2017
This is engineering feat of wall in Yuma Sector. Someone went underneath it. pic.twitter.com/06Zi2jSaS2
— Michel Marizco (@BorderReporter) January 25, 2017
This is the end of vehicle barrier in Yuma sector, just before Yuma Proving Grounds. Can’t build past this because of massive, rocky hill. pic.twitter.com/QBJY18uxqu
— Michel Marizco (@BorderReporter) January 25, 2017
This is wall along Tohono O’odham Nation where tribe is not letting @CustomsBorder build more than vehicle barrier. pic.twitter.com/8ia7Ev5zF3
— Michel Marizco (@BorderReporter) January 25, 2017
This is gateway on border wall along Organ Pipe Cactus Natl Monument in S. AZ. CBP agent Yuma indicted for selling combos to same to narcos pic.twitter.com/fMIol0aSTP
— Michel Marizco (@BorderReporter) January 25, 2017
This is Arizona rancher Jim Chilton scrambling beneath barbed wire that makes up border along his ranch w Mexico. pic.twitter.com/7Tu69TsUhK
— Michel Marizco (@BorderReporter) January 25, 2017
Here, either CBP or Army Corps of Engineers grew bored while erecting walls in Naco after Secure Fence Act and built a hobby horse pic.twitter.com/GMRCP5VOFr
— Michel Marizco (@BorderReporter) January 25, 2017
Here, someone built a ladder out of pallets on southside of Yuma Sector wall. pic.twitter.com/P4pupWD8uH
— Michel Marizco (@BorderReporter) January 25, 2017
argument to be made that this is better investment: @CBPArizona specialized team of cartel scout hunters, Operation Waypoint. pic.twitter.com/Blrf6YGROu
— Michel Marizco (@BorderReporter) January 25, 2017
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