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Experts see U.S. border fence plan as impractical
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| News Date | Monday, October 2, 2006 10:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Building a fence to try to secure the U.S. border with Mexico is impractical and would simply lead illegal immigrants to cross elsewhere, according to former Customs and Border Protection agents and other experts.
The Senate voted on Friday to build about 700 miles (1,125 km) of double-layered fence with access roads, lighting, cameras and sensors, to try to block five heavily used crossing points along the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) border.
Another former U.S. Customs special agent, who declined to be named, said the fencing would also struggle to bridge hundreds of creek beds spanning the Arizona-Sonora border, which are prone to flash floods from May through October.
"You are going to have to build hundreds of culverts big enough for debris the size of brush and small trees to float through the length of the border," said the former agent.
"If it is wide enough for bushes to get through, then people can get through."
"The draw for illegal immigrants is the availability of employment in the United States, and that is not being addressed by this fence," she said.
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