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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHaha: Border Wall Breached by a $5.30 Rebar Ladder
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Check out this video at the jump:
'Somebody is making money off those ladders': Smugglers use 'camouflage' ladders to cross border wall
The ladders appear to be made with two poles of 3/8-inch rebar and four thinner poles, outfitted with steps and bent over at the end in a U, to hook on the top of the wall. It's the sort of cubed rebar support structure used in construction in Mexico, called castillo.
Six meters of castillo costs 99 pesos, or about $5.30, at the Hágalo or Do It Yourself True Value hardware store in Juárez. There is no indication that smugglers are shopping at that store in particular.
Romero said the rebar ladders started turning up in large numbers in the El Paso sector last year in May, around the time that construction of the most recent replacement wall finished downtown. They've been a go-to method for scaling the fence in the urban footprint since.
The Trump administration has funded construction of about 100 miles of border wall during his presidency, mostly to replace existing barriers. The president has proposed spending an additional $2 billion for border wall construction under a draft White House budget.
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2020/02/14/smugglers-in-mexico-use-camouflage-ladder-to-cross-border-wall/4760798002/
Here is an image of what a castillo looks like, which is a lightweight version of a concrete column reinforcement, and these guys make sure that wire is rusty so it blends with the wall, making it difficult to detect.
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Haha: Border Wall Breached by a $5.30 Rebar Ladder (Original Post)
TheBlackAdder
Feb 2020
OP
He just claimed on Tuesday that people were getting stuck in top of jiscwall.
sinkingfeeling
Feb 2020
#6
We need some good footage of dozens of immigrants climbing over the wall for political ads using
Quixote1818
Feb 2020
#7
doc03
(35,148 posts)1. Who ever thought they would use ladders?
riversedge
(69,727 posts)2. 'were there is a will there is a way"
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)9. Bingo!!!! nt
csziggy
(34,120 posts)3. 2016: "Trump thinks they don't have ladders in Mexico!"
Former Mexican president blasts Trump, says he will not pay for wall
Thu 25 Feb 2016 19.07 EST
Vicente Foxs comments come after Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to make Mexico pay for a wall to seal off the United States border with Mexico
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox has given an uncompromising response to Republican frontrunner Donald Trumps plans to make Mexico pay for a wall along the US border with Mexico.
Im not going to pay for that fucking wall. He should pay for it. Hes got the money, Fox told Jorge Ramos on Fusion.
Are you afraid that hes going to be the next president of the United States? Ramos asked the former Mexican president. What would that mean for Mexico?
No, no, no, democracy can not take that, crazy people that dont know what is going on in the world today, Fox said. This worries me, the last caucus in Nevada ... he won 44% of Hispanics. Id like to know who those Hispanics are, because they are followers of a false prophet, Fox said.
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bernardcrofton
Serv_On
26 Feb 2016 3:03
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Trump thinks they don't have ladders in Mexico!
I'm just pointing out that it is not the building cost, that is just a place to focus your troops and police. Without intense security a wall will be breached. It was the cost of patrolling the "Berlin Wall" that eventually brought down communism.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/25/donald-trump-former-mexico-president-vincente-fox-im-not-paying-for-wall
Thu 25 Feb 2016 19.07 EST
Vicente Foxs comments come after Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to make Mexico pay for a wall to seal off the United States border with Mexico
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox has given an uncompromising response to Republican frontrunner Donald Trumps plans to make Mexico pay for a wall along the US border with Mexico.
Im not going to pay for that fucking wall. He should pay for it. Hes got the money, Fox told Jorge Ramos on Fusion.
Are you afraid that hes going to be the next president of the United States? Ramos asked the former Mexican president. What would that mean for Mexico?
No, no, no, democracy can not take that, crazy people that dont know what is going on in the world today, Fox said. This worries me, the last caucus in Nevada ... he won 44% of Hispanics. Id like to know who those Hispanics are, because they are followers of a false prophet, Fox said.
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bernardcrofton
Serv_On
26 Feb 2016 3:03
0 1
Trump thinks they don't have ladders in Mexico!
I'm just pointing out that it is not the building cost, that is just a place to focus your troops and police. Without intense security a wall will be breached. It was the cost of patrolling the "Berlin Wall" that eventually brought down communism.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/25/donald-trump-former-mexico-president-vincente-fox-im-not-paying-for-wall
csziggy
(34,120 posts)4. Satire - Ladder Purchases In Mexico Rise By 9,000% January 25, 2017
Ladder Purchases In Mexico Rise By 9,000%
January 25, 2017 - BREAKING NEWS, WORLD NEWS
THERE has been a 9000% rise in purchases of ladders in Mexico in the hours after US president Donald Trump indicated construction of a border wall between America and Mexico could begin in the coming days, WWN can confirm.
President Trump has assembled the greatest construction minds in America to engage in building the wall, which has sparked many Mexicans seeking entry into their northern neighbours to simply buy a ladder.
Believe me, this will be the best wall in the history of walls. Its incredible, people will look at the great wall of China and say really, thats a great wall, I mean have you seen Americas border wall? I mean, come on, thats what theyll say its true, Trump explained earlier today.
Trumps administration rubbished claims by his critics that a wall which will cost the taxpayer in excess of $25 billion will be ineffectual and pointless given one third of the border is already covered by walls and fencing while being manned by over 46,000 border personnel, and that immigration between the countries is at its lowest since the early 90s.
More: https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2017/01/25/ladder-purchases-in-mexico-rise-by-9000/
January 25, 2017 - BREAKING NEWS, WORLD NEWS
THERE has been a 9000% rise in purchases of ladders in Mexico in the hours after US president Donald Trump indicated construction of a border wall between America and Mexico could begin in the coming days, WWN can confirm.
President Trump has assembled the greatest construction minds in America to engage in building the wall, which has sparked many Mexicans seeking entry into their northern neighbours to simply buy a ladder.
Believe me, this will be the best wall in the history of walls. Its incredible, people will look at the great wall of China and say really, thats a great wall, I mean have you seen Americas border wall? I mean, come on, thats what theyll say its true, Trump explained earlier today.
Trumps administration rubbished claims by his critics that a wall which will cost the taxpayer in excess of $25 billion will be ineffectual and pointless given one third of the border is already covered by walls and fencing while being manned by over 46,000 border personnel, and that immigration between the countries is at its lowest since the early 90s.
More: https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2017/01/25/ladder-purchases-in-mexico-rise-by-9000/
csziggy
(34,120 posts)5. Vicente Fox taunts Donald Trump over border wall, taco bowls
Ryan Santistevan, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 1:22 p.m. MT June 13, 2017 | Updated 1:04 p.m. MT June 14, 2017
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Fox said the billions of dollars that it would take to build the border wall estimates range but he uses $25 billion could instead be better spent on three years' worth of clean drinking water for everyone on the planet, a year without world hunger, paying 50,000 teachers for a decade and a college education for 250,000 students.
"Donald, under no circumstances will we pay for this stupid, useless, racist monument," Fox says of the border wall.
Pulling a paper from a folder, Fox reveals how "bad hombres" will defeat the border wall using only a $25 ladder.
However, Fox says the ladder would need to be at least 18 feet tall. The most recent documents from the Trump administration call for it to be up 30 feet tall. Ladders that tall run about $400 on Amazon.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2017/06/13/former-mexico-president-vicente-fox-roasts-trump-border-wall/390540001/
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Fox said the billions of dollars that it would take to build the border wall estimates range but he uses $25 billion could instead be better spent on three years' worth of clean drinking water for everyone on the planet, a year without world hunger, paying 50,000 teachers for a decade and a college education for 250,000 students.
"Donald, under no circumstances will we pay for this stupid, useless, racist monument," Fox says of the border wall.
Pulling a paper from a folder, Fox reveals how "bad hombres" will defeat the border wall using only a $25 ladder.
However, Fox says the ladder would need to be at least 18 feet tall. The most recent documents from the Trump administration call for it to be up 30 feet tall. Ladders that tall run about $400 on Amazon.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2017/06/13/former-mexico-president-vicente-fox-roasts-trump-border-wall/390540001/
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)6. He just claimed on Tuesday that people were getting stuck in top of jiscwall.
Quixote1818
(28,904 posts)7. We need some good footage of dozens of immigrants climbing over the wall for political ads using
Benny Hill chase music to just demoralize the wall idea:
not fooled
(5,791 posts)8. the wall doesn't have to actually work
or even be built other than some token expanses.
It's all just a con on his dumbass followers who demanded it.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)12. and the whole world laughs at the dumbasses ...
Mexicans Are Getting Across
and we should laugh with them and welcome them.
and we should laugh with them and welcome them.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)10. This makes Trump look like a fool.
And it should.
Because he IS a fool.
Takket
(21,425 posts)11. literally everyone on earth besides drumpf and his braindead supporters saw that coming