Thread: Video Shows 18 Seconds to Climb Border Fence

Video Shows Women Climbing U.S.-Mexico Border Fence in Less Than 18 Seconds

Published January 18, 2011
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MyFoxHouston.com
Less than 18 seconds. That's how long it took two young women to climb a U.S.-Mexico border fence that costs millions of dollars in taxpayer money.

In a video shot by filmmaker Roy Germano, two women show how easy it is to reach the top by climbing the fence's concrete-filled steel pipes in less than 18 seconds, MyFoxHouston.com reports.

The video -- which asks the question "Is it worth the expense?" -- was shown to an immigrant advocate who acknowledged that the portion of fence in question is poorly designed. The barrier costs taxpayers on average about $4 million per mile of border fence, according to the station.

"Huge amounts of money being poured into this, and we haven't really seen progress," Houston immigrant advocate Cesar Espinosa told the station.

"We need to have a combination of high technology predator drones. We need additional manpower along the border, and then where appropriate we need to build these double-layered secure fences to actually secure the border," Espinosa said.

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"If that's what we are spending our money on, I would say that's right, but that's not what was called for in the Secure Fence Act," Price said.

The 2006 Secure Fence Act called for a double-layer fence and motion detectors, but the project has been dying a slow death.

Price pointed to another online video that shows portions of the border fence that are properly built -- and have effectively reduced border crossing by as much as 95 percent.

Click to read the story about the border fence crossings from MyFoxHouston.com

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/18/vi ... e-seconds/

MyFoxHouston.Com report from above article

2 Girls Quickly Conquer Border Fence

Video proof uploaded to YouTube

Updated: Monday, 17 Jan 2011, 10:29 PM CST
Published : Monday, 17 Jan 2011, 10:29 PM CST


SALLY MACDONALD
Reporter

HOUSTON - Less than 18 seconds. That's how long it took two young women to scale a border fence your tax dollars helped build and maintain.

The video shot by filmmaker Roy Germano shows just how easy it is to climb to the top of a section of the U.S./Mexico border. Germano says on average one mile of border fence costs U.S. taxpayers four million dollars. On the video he asks the question, "Is it worth the expense?"

We showed the video to Houston immigrant advocate Cesar Espinosa and Bob Price with Border Watch. Both men agree the portion of the fence shown in the video was poorly designed. They disagree on whether the video proves anything.

"Well it's obviously a video to show how the border fence is not working" said Espinosa. "I would say it's (the video) very misleading....If that's what we are spending our money on I would say that's right, but that's not what was called for in the Secure Fence Act," said Price.

The 2006 Secure Fence Act calls for a double layer fence and motion detectors, but the project has been dying a slow death.
"Huge amounts of money being poured into this, and we haven't really seen progress," said Espinosa.

Price points to another video on YouTube that hasn't gotten nearly as many clicks but argues that in the few spots where a fence is properly built border crossings have been reduced by as much as 95 percent.

"We need to have a combination of high technology predator drones. We need additional manpower along the border, and then where appropriate we need to build these double layered secure fences to actually secure the border," he said.

Espinosa says the government should put the money somewhere else.

"Not only Mexico but all Latin American countries, we really need to figure out new policies with them so we can improve the economies of our neighbors so we won't be dealing with the immigration issue 10 to 15 years from now," he said.

"We have plenty of people in America who need our help. We don't need to be spending money we don't have in other countries," said Price.

Watch the YouTube video (non-mobile users):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHjKBjM1ngw

this was on befor . that not a fence

no amnesty