Two people have been spotted easily climbing over a new section of President Donald Trump’s border wall with a rope ladder.
Footage shows three people at the foot of the wall at the California-Mexico border that the President has previously said ‘could not be climbed’.
In the viral video posted on Twitter by The Desert Sun photojournalist, J. Omar Ornelas, one of the men is seen leaping over a second smaller wall as a Border Patrol car pulls up – forcing the other two to abandon their mission.
It’s unclear if the three escaped agents.
In a Spanish language exchange, when asked whether he was able to grab the entire thing, he replied that it is very risky to get these shots and that people seen recording may not live to share the footage.
The clip from the Palm Springs-based photographer shows the first person slide down the other side in a matter of seconds with no problem, proving the 18 to 30 feet bollards are certainly not too high for some to tackle.
It’s not clear which part of the wall the footage is from or which side of it the videographer was on.
However the climbers do risk death as the tallest barriers are around the height of a three-story building.
Some of the smugglers reportedly use lightweight ladders made of metal rebar to detour the ‘anti-climb panels’ at the barrier’s top.
These rebar ladders are ideal because the metal rods are cheap and slim enough to fit between the four-inch-wide gaps between bollards, allowing smugglers to use it for the secondary row of fencing.
Agents say that smugglers have more difficulties cutting through newer versions of the barrier and that the open gap only allows one person, rather than a large group, to pass at a time.
But as CBP is adding double-layer barriers in high breach areas, smugglers are targeting areas where the first and secondary walls are closest.
Trump’s campaign promised that Mexico would pay for the ‘Rolls-Royce’ wall that people will not be able to pass. But thus far the almost $10 billion budget has come from taxpayer money from U.S funding sources like the Defense Department.
Criminal organizations in Mexico, which generate billions of dollars in revenue, have personal motivations to refit their operations to bypass new border obstacles and law enforcement methods.
They have previously built ladders to hop overtop into popular smuggling areas like San Diego.
In September, Trump said the barrier was ‘virtually impenetrable’ but after people were reported as cutting their way through it, POTUS admitted it wasn’t.
‘We have a very powerful wall. But no matter how powerful, you can cut through anything, in all fairness,’ he confessed last month.
However he claimed the design – that can easily be hacked away at with basic power tools – was intentional.
Trump added that despite the flaws, illegal immigrants would have problems getting into the United States because all eyes are on his wall.
‘But we have a lot of people watching,’ he continued. ‘You know cutting, cutting is one thing, but it’s easily fixed. One of the reasons we did it the way we did it, it’s very easily fixed. You put the chunk back in.’
He responded after The Washington Post reported Mexican drug gangs had been smuggling narcotics through the wall by fitting reciprocating saws costing less than $100 with specialized blades.
Using that they can get through concrete and steel bollards in minutes according to their sources who had knowledge of incidents.
Kevin Trumble, a materials engineering professor at Purdue University, and Srinivasan Chandrasekar, an industrial engineering professor at Purdue, both said a skilled person with a reciprocating saw could cut through the bollard in 15 minutes or less with a team.
A severed bollard can allegedly be moved out of the way with a simple car jack.
Border Patrol catch two scaling new section of Trump’s wall
TRYING TO DODGE PAYING THE CARTEL, NO DOUBT…..