Building a Border: Part 2 - U.S. officials want to make the 2,000-mile southern frontier inhospitable to crossers. But terrain, weather and human ingenuity have been tough on the technology.

“Department of Homeland Security officials trying to secure the countrys land borders, its a hard lesson: A $5 ladder trumps a $30 million fence.

In the multibillion-dollar effort to build a Fortress America, nothing has gained as much attention as the effort to wall off Americas borders through a combination of one of the oldest technologies in the world - the fence - and some of the newest - advanced radar, infrared cameras, minidrones.”

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