Me, wearing a green baseball cap and holding a camera in one hand, with a camera bag over my shoulder, standing in front of the U.S.-Mexico border fence. The fence is made out of 6" square steel tubing 30' high. The square tubes are separated by 4" gaps. One of the tubes, called bollards, has been cut through at the base. I am shown in the video easily pushing the square tube open, creating a 10" wide gap that most people can easily squeeze though. This is how most asylum seekers now come through the fence. The human trafficking cartels cut the fence and then charge people to be taken to it and let through. Even once welded shut by the Border Patrol, cutting a new opening is trivial and easily accomplished with a cordless grinder.

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   Nazi trumps fuck off. (mikal@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 16:20:01 JST Nazi trumps fuck off.

   Every time I hear someone go on about "border security" I'm going to post this video of me pushing open a "gate" cut by cartels in the border fence; a fence that cost billions of dollars and is easily defeated by cheap cordless cutting tools.

   There are two ways to have a secure border: place groups of soldiers in fortified bunkers every 100' along the *entire length of the fence* 24/7 (no, don't do this), or by helping to stabilize the economic and security situations in the countries people are arriving from while also having a humane and easy to navigate immigration policy.

   Many of the people coming here in hopes of asylum are arriving from countries with a history of U.S. support for dictators (e.g. Honduras, Nicaragua) or as direct or indirect climate refugees. Given that the U.S. is the second largest greenhouse gas emitter (and, I believe, the largest per capita), we legitimately owe these people safe harbor.

   #border #immigration #BorderWall #BorderSecurity #SeekingAsylumIsNotACrime