Former President Donald Trump promised his supporters an “impenetrable” border wall between the United States and Mexico. Instead, the $15 billion wall was reportedly breached thousands of times in areas where it was completed, and the smugglers who cut through it were able to do so with cheap power tools available in retail stores.
Unpublished data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection obtained via the Freedom of Information Act showed that Mexican smugglers cut through the wall 3,272 times over three years, according to The Washington Post. In some cases, they replaced the areas they cut with tinted putty, essentially creating secret passages.
“You have to look really closely to see it,” one source told the newspaper.
A new report found that former President Donald Trump's border wall was breached thousands of times with "inexpensive power tools." Mandel Ngan via Getty Images
The incidents cited by the Post referred to cases where the wall had been cut. But it was also breached in other ways. One report last year found some smugglers were building effective ladders with about $5 worth of material. In another famous case from 2020, a stiff wind knocked over a segment.
Trump repeatedly promised to build a “big beautiful wall” across the southern border that Mexico would pay for.
Mexico did not pay for it. U.S. taxpayers did.
Grogosh on March 3rd, 2022 at 11:49 UTC »
Of course it was.
And of course it was never intended to be an actual solid wall. It was intended for yet another way to funnel billions into private businesses. Private businesses that you would have found out is partly owned by trump in some way.
gibswim75 on March 3rd, 2022 at 11:49 UTC »
Yes but many of his contractor “friends” got very rich who in turn donated large amounts to the Trump campaign. So technically it worked out perfectly
Chariot-of-Belenus on March 3rd, 2022 at 11:10 UTC »
Everything Trump touches is a failure.