Tank Traps
In the heavily populated areas along the border with Mexico the USA has built an 18 foot high fence that is lit at night with stadium lighting. It will stop vehicles, people, and animals. http://hpgarland.blogspot.com/2009/01/undocumented-immigrants.html
For much of the 60 mile length of the international border with Mexico from Columbus, New Mexico to El Paso, Texas in the past there really wasn’t much of a fence, if any fence at all. This is a really wild area, and not many people come out here.
I was out there today and saw the solution they have come up with for these remote areas. It looks a lot like the WWII tank traps the Germans built in Europe. It will not stop small animals from passing to feed or migrate, and a person could very easily get through it. Someone really dete
rmined could cut through the six inch square (150mm) one half inch thick steel that is the backbone. But this would not be easy or quick, and would be readily detectable.
However for the routine drug dealer carrying 1,000 lbs. of illegal drugs in the bed of his 4-wheel drive pickup truck, this is a formidable barrier indeed.
Very good solution!
I was at 31.78376N, -107.17696W when I took these pictures.
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For much of the 60 mile length of the international border with Mexico from Columbus, New Mexico to El Paso, Texas in the past there really wasn’t much of a fence, if any fence at all. This is a really wild area, and not many people come out here.
I was out there today and saw the solution they have come up with for these remote areas. It looks a lot like the WWII tank traps the Germans built in Europe. It will not stop small animals from passing to feed or migrate, and a person could very easily get through it. Someone really dete
rmined could cut through the six inch square (150mm) one half inch thick steel that is the backbone. But this would not be easy or quick, and would be readily detectable.However for the routine drug dealer carrying 1,000 lbs. of illegal drugs in the bed of his 4-wheel drive pickup truck, this is a formidable barrier indeed.
Very good solution!
I was at 31.78376N, -107.17696W when I took these pictures.
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