Deliberate Border Fence Degradation

October 4, 2009

The Border Patrol cut a 100-ft hole in the border fence in a major smuggling corridor west of ABP’s ranch.  

The hole was cut at a wash.  We were told the opening was made to allow for monsoon rains to flow past the fence.
 
The problem is that the fence was already designed to allow water to flow. Not only that, Kiewitt Construction, the company that built the fence, had run into a problem with a fence it had built at Lukeville before it built this fence.  You would think they would have applied “lessons learned” in the new fence.

Even if a heavy storm caused momentary high water flow at the fence, the worst impact would have been a backup of debris and temporary flooding of the border road.  

This could easily have been corrected with a skip-loader.
 
The Border Patrol cut the fence elsewhere along the border near the ABP ranch and, even though the monsoon ended one month ago, the cuts have not been repaired.

(This year’s monsoon was one of the poorest on record in terms of rainfall)

(See this feature)
 
Are these degradations part of a pattern along the border?  

We don’t’ know, and that’s why it is very important that ABP continue to fly the border to monitor the situation.

Glenn Spencer

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