Found this posted in the portajohn thread by devildog and thought it appropriate to add to this thread.
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This video is BS.
Take a look on Mapquest. The "border wall" at the park stops on the south end of the golf course. Texas is wide open south of that. There is no border wall like he is showing in the video. You can just walk from the golf course around the south end of the wall.
Texas is mostly, almost entirely, like 90%, unfenced.
They put a small amount of "border wall" in the park in Eagle Pass many years ago because they had so many crossings there, and it was difficult to catch them right in the town. This forces them to go around it, where they are easier to catch.
Of course, the video being bullshit does not mean that there is not a problem. Like I said, they can just go around it.
I don't know where he filmed that wall, but it is not outside of Eagle Pass, Tx.
The park is inside the wall. That is, the border is the river. The park is between the wall and the river. So if you want to play golf, you drive through the wall, and go play golf between the wall and the river. The border crossing bridge goes over the top of the wall. Weird set up.
Anyway, Texas is manning the wide open gates in this small section of border wall and put razor wire in the river. The big political theater here is that Texas is defending its border. LOL. Yeah, right in this park, they are keeping Mexicans from getting onto the golf course. Texas is doing nothing at all outside of town. The border patrol runs that area. This is a political theater.
Why is no mainstream news source reporting this instead of offering this up like it is a huge potential standoff between Texas and the feds? Ratings. Money. Period. If they brought the cameras to the south end of the park or just went south along the Rio Grande and showed the audience the unfenced vast openness of Texas, then the audience would not be as interested in giving them viewing eyeballs, which generates ad clicks. Money.