The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is expected to hang hexagonal wire in Laredo, Texas, leading some people to believe that a new border wall will be built in the area.
As a border city, Laredo is an important port of entry for Mexican products into the United States. Laredo is said to have also made Laredo an area for undocumented immigrants to enter the country. Laredo is expected to occupy 69 miles of the wall when construction is completed. According to the Laredo Morning Times, CBP officials told the city manager Robert Eads that the concertina line is essential for “operational reasons”, but it is not meant to be a sign of wall construction .
Congressman Mercurio Martinez said on Wednesday that he believed the wire was in place before the trench was dug to build the wall. Martinez said: “This looks like a military zone.” “I don’t think this is conducive to being a good neighbor. We are not in a military zone.”
In a statement sent to Newsweek on Thursday, CBP explained that it “recently filed a request for a new license agreement with the city of Laredo that allows the use of property owned by the city by the river. In order to allow the possible deployment of concertina lines in the future. The updated agreement will replace previously implemented agreements that have expired and allow the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) to deploy concertina lines on city property as an enforcement mechanism when needed.”
The statement added: “USBP currently has no plans to deploy concertina cords that can be used as needed.”
CBP regards Laredo as an “active area,” which states that the borders of the area have so far “seized more than 21,750 illegal alien arrests and 30,150 pounds of drugs during the current fiscal year.” In May, CBP officials seized more than $650,000 in drugs in two separate incidents in one day. At the time, Laredo Port of Entry Director Gregory Alvarez (Gregory Alvarez) called the smuggling of drugs across the border a “serious international health and safety threat.”
Not all Laredo residents support the construction of a border wall in their city. Some people formed the “Wall Curtain Joint Foundation”, calling for the $275 million in special funds to be used for wall construction in social engineering.
The “Funding for the Wall, Funding for Our Future” campaign aims to build political will to change the priorities of the federal government, from building walls that make local communities feel like open-air prisons, to building real security: Health care, employment, education and a healthy environment.”
Laredo community leader Juan Livas called the border wall “fake” in July. Livas said: “This is a huge waste of money.” “This wall has collapsed somewhere on the border.”
In January, the California part of the border wall was blown by strong winds and landed in the Mexican city of Mexicali. The foundation of that part of the wall was not poured until recently, and the concrete has not yet cured. At the time, CBP spokesperson Ralph DeSio called the collapse a “rare event.”
DeSio added: “The border wall system is essential to ensure border security, which is required by border patrol personnel and needs to maintain operational control over the southern border.”
President Donald Trump has been talking loudly. During a visit to the construction site of the border wall in Yuma, Arizona, President Trump said on Tuesday that the wall will soon reach 300 miles long.
Trump said: “It’s really a feeling to close the border.” “Now, people can come in as long as they have the talent, if they come in legally, but they don’t come in like they used to.”
Update at 7:01 PM EST on August 20, 2020: This story has been updated with a statement from the US Customs and Border Protection.
Post time: Aug-21-2020