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The people who live in the
bustling, fertile Rio Grande Val-
ley, where the U.S. border meets
the Gulf of Mexico, think a “vir-
tual wall” of surveillance tech-
nology makes a lot more sense.
It’s already in wide use and ex-
panding.
Erecting a 40-foot concrete
barrier across the entire 1,954-
mile frontier with Mexico, as
Trump promised during the
presidential campaign, collides
head-on with multiple realities:
geology, fierce local resistance
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deliver the billions required.
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when the president-elect
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five days after the election, say-
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In this Nov. 16 photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent
drags a home-made ladder found hidden near a section of
border wall near the Rio Grande in Hidalgo.
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held back flooding. The cost was
about $10 million a mile,
though.
In the Nov. 8 election, only
three Texas border counties —
all sparsely populated — went
for Trump. The rest are solidly
Democratic and back President
Obama’s more lenient immigra-
tion policies.
The U.S. side of the border is
quite safe, Weisberg-Stewart
said. ‘We are not in a war zone.”
In fact, cross-border trade
has been booming. In 2014,
more than $246 billion worth of
goods and 3.7 million trucks
crossed the Texas-Mexico bor-
der, according to the coalition.
While much of the border’s
Mexican side has been afflicted
by drug cartel-related violence,
crime in the Rio Grande Valley,
home to 1.3 million people, has
been consistently lower than
other Texas cities.
The Border Patrol’s buildup
after 9/11 is one reason, argues a
former chief, David Aguilar.
Since 2004, the year he was
named to the job, the number of
agents on the southwest border
has climbed from 9,500 to more
than 17,500.
Meanwhile, the number of
border apprehensions is down
from a peak of L6 million in
2000 to 409,000 in the year
ending in September. Nearly
half were caught in the Rio
Grande Valley.
The Great Recession that be-
gan in 2008 made the U.S. less
attractive to Mexican migrants,
and Central Americans fleeing
violence and poverty in their
homelands now account for
more than half the arrivals.
Many migrants In the Rio
Grande Valley turn themselves
in at border bridges. After pro-
cessing, released migrants are
given court dates in destination
cities where relatives typically
await.
Since 2013, the agency has al-
so had five blimp-like aerostats
that float from 1,000 to 5,000
feet above the valley on tethers
and are equipped with remote-
controlled cameras. High-flying
Predator drones are additional
eyes in the sky, patrolling vast ar-
eas of southwest borderlands
since 2011.
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side ranch after the U.S. Border
Fence Act was enacted a decade
ago under President George W.
Bush. Garcia is still waiting to
see if the Border Patrol will put a
fence or wall on the sliver of land
it surveyed and promised to pay
$8,300 for.
Under the law, 652 miles of
border barrier were built, mostly
in Arizona. The 110 miles offenc-
es and fortified levees that went
up in Texas are broken lines,
some as much as a mile and a
half from the river.
The Garcias believe they and
the rest of Los Ebanos’ villagers
were spared because the ero-
sion-prone clay soil is simply too
unstable.
Geology conspires against
wall-building up and down the
Rio Grande Valley. Its accom-
plices are a boundarywater trea-
ty with Mexico and endangered-
species laws. Catwalks and tun-
nels had to be built into border
barriers to accommodate ocelots
and jaguarundi, two species of
wild cat.
The plentiful breaks in the
border barrier, meanwhile, in-
clude an entire flank of the River
Bend golf club and resort in
Brownsville — “gaps of privi-
lege” for the well-connected, ac-
cording to one critic.
Other landowners fought the
Border Patrol in court.
“The wall might make mid-
America feel safer, but for those
of us that live on the border, it’s
not making us feel any safer
when we know that people can
go over it, around it, under it and
through it,” said Monica Weisb-
erg-Stewart, security expert for
the Texas Border Coalition, a
consortium of regional leaders.
A poll conducted in South-
west border cities in May found
72 percent of residents opposed
to a wall. The Cronkite News-
Univision-DuZZos
News poll had margin of error of
2.6 percentage points.
Local politicians have found
inventive ways to make wall-
building palatable. A 20-mile
stretch in Hidalgo County con-
sisted of a fortified levee topped
with a fence. In 2010, that levee
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