Will the fence work if troops head home? From: orlandosentinel.com
Tagged: border, border fencePosted on: June 24th, 2008
The National Guard’s mission on the U.S.-Mexican frontier is to end in July, but governors of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas want the troops to stay. The Bush administration says no.
ON THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER — Tech. Sgt. Wayne Combs of the California Air National Guard is riding aboard “Mad Max,” a military truck whose homemade platform evokes the apocalyptic film.
Ten feet above the ground, he and other Guard members are cutting and straightening posts to make the last line of U.S. fencing taller — to 16 feet — and harder for illegal migrants and smugglers to breach.”*
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