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Tijuana Invaders try to crash Ground Breaking Ceremony at Smuggler's Gulch Today


At 11:30 am today, right as the ground breaking ceremony with Brian Bilbray and Duncan Hunter was getting underway at the bottom of Smuggler's Gulch, four Bush-McCain-Kennedy "guest workers" decided to invade the sovereign territory of the United States (sans permission) just a couple hundred yards to the east on the high ground.

Apparently, they figured the distraction of the nearby ceremony would be a great time to sneak past the Border Patrol who were all down in the gulch.

An American Patriot driving towards Smuggler's via the border road spotted 4 in the bushes, got out and snapped these pictures. When they saw him, they ran back to the border fence and tried to cross back over. Most people don't realize, but the way the grooves are in the metal landing mat border fence, its easier to cross into America than back into Mexico so they could not all get back over quickly. BP arrived a few minutes later and made no attempt to stop them as they walked along the fence on our side looking for a good place to cross back. Eventually the last guy's friends on the Tijuana side pulled up and helped him back over into Mexico. The Mexican Olympic Fence Jumping Team this was not!

Hunter was on Roger Hedgecock today and said this 4-mile stretch of double fence to the ocean should be completed by May 1, 2009. After that, Enrique's criminal buddies will have to find a new way to invade our homeland!

Here's the Ch. 7 news coverage of today's press conference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvHdL7gjfwU
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$42M Border Fence Construction Under Way
Area Considered Notorious For Smuggling

POSTED: 2:40 pm PDT July 28, 2008
UPDATED: 5:32 pm PDT July 28, 2008


SAN DIEGO -- After more than a decade of delays, construction is getting under way on a 3-mile stretch of border fencing.


The double fencing stretches from the ocean at Border Field State Park into Smuggler’s Gulch, which empties into the Tijuana River Valley on the U.S. side of the border. That area has historically been San Diego's most heavily trafficked border stretch, in terms of illegal immigrants, drugs and criminal activity, officials said. Just last week, Border Patrol agents took 49 illegal immigrants into custody in that area after they were found hiding in the tank of a stolen water truck.


The first phase of the fencing project is already ongoing -- floodworks. A big box culvert and rip-rap boulders to protect the fences and the access road between them from storm runoff.

Starting later this week, the contractors will begin bulldozing 2 million cubic yards off the top of the mesas to accommodate all that. Fourteen miles of double-fencing has gone up to the east of Smuggler's gulch since 1996.

"Every family in America that's been touched by the tragedy of illegal drugs or by criminal activity that's come from across the border has as stake in this border fence," said Rep. Duncan Hunter.

But federal regulations and environmental lawsuits have delayed work on the coastal stretch to the west, until Hunter pushed through a waiver of those laws, exercised by the Department of Homeland Security. He argued that the project won't be the environmental disaster that critics have claimed.

"This plan has gotten past, it's been approved by the Carlsbad office of Fish and Wildlife -- which is considered to be the toughest Fish & Wildlife office in the nation. So it's an ecologically and environmentally sensitive plan. It's a good one," said Hunter.

According to Hunter, San Diego County's crime rate has gone down by 53 percent since the 14 miles of existing double-fencing went up along the border. He said that barriers of one kind or another now stretch for about 50 the county's 70 miles of border.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/17018110/detail.html