Why a Texas border wall won’t deter Central American migrants

WASHINGTON - Asylum seekers coming across the border from Mexico in South Texas have recently devised a new system for defeating the tall barrier fences that were built to keep them out.


“They’ll actually walk up to the border wall, where there are gates,” said Jodi Goodwin, an immigration attorney in Harlingen, Tex. “They know those gates have cameras. So they’ll just wave at the cameras to notify the Border Patrol, ‘We’re here!’”


“They don’t have to worry about getting over a wall,” she continued. “To them, the wall is completely irrelevant.”

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