Trump's 'Impenetrable' Border Wall Breached Thousands Of Times, New Report Says
Last edited Fri Mar 4, 2022, 01:18 AM - Edit history (1)
Rachel Lang
Published 3:04, 04 March 2022 GMT
| Last updated 3:04, 04 March 2022 GMT
Children playing at the Mexico-US border wall, built by the Trump administration. Credit: Haydn Denman/Alamy Stock Photo
US Customs and Border Protection had previously acknowledged that smugglers were able to hack their way through the barriers built by the Trump administration.
But the records - obtained by the Freedom of Information Act - shows that the damage is far more significant than previously known.
The damage also points to the ineffectuality of Trump's border wall from actually preventing illegal crossings.
Over 800 kilometres of wall was constructed by Trump's administration from 2019, mostly in rural New Mexico and Arizona.
Although the former US president claimed his 'big, beautiful wall' was the 'Rolls-Royce' of barriers, smugglers only needed power tools found at a standard hardware store to break through the structure.
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