One of Trump’s famous rallying cries was “build the wall.” It was that and something like, “Aren’t you afraid of brown people too?” When Trump came into office, he had the House and he had the Senate and he was gifted the Supreme Court. He used all of that unpopular support to … give tax breaks to the rich. He and his fellow GOP also shifted around some money to build symbolic walls that do nothing except waste money and time and resources.
The Washington Post reports that one such section of Trump’s new impenetrable wall was either breached or attempts at breaching it were made about 18 times between Sept. 27 and Oct. 27 of last year. Each time, the cost to fix the breach was $620, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection records.
The Post was able to obtain the records through a Freedom of Information Act request. These 18 breaches and attempted breaches on a single section of wall over one month does not necessarily mean that it is the general rate that this kind of activity is happening along our Trumponian circus sideshow border wall. Border officials told the Post that the tallies they obtained were the result of smuggling operations, meaning that there is a good chance that any and all other breaches or attempted breaches might not have been recorded.
Considering that wind has been known to knock down some of Trump’s border wall, it would not be surprising to find out that most of what has been built in Trump’s name is as easily penetrated as Trump’s small mind is. But don’t you worry: according to officials, this section of wall is not fully operational yet—like the Death Star in Star Wars—but when it is it’ll be “the most advanced border wall system USBP has ever deployed.”
