Fence at U.S./Mexico border is cut

July 12, 2011


By Derek Jordan





Herald/Review

NACO — A section of the border fence was damaged east of Naco recently, a series of photos from a resident living near the damaged area shows.

Richard Hodges, who owns land east of Naco, said he was checking his fence line with his wife when he saw a U.S. Border Patrol agent along the fence in a wash, and behind him a large gap in the fence where several of the concrete-filled steel beams had been brought down.

“They took a torch, and right at ground level, cut the pipes. All five of them,â€