The US-Mexico Border Is a Dangerous Place With or Without a Wall Ramon Taylor - VOA News
go to original January 27, 2017

There's already a wall at the US-Mexico border... (AJ+)

In the vast desert outside Jacumba, California, Enrique Morones - founder and director of Border Angels - drops gallon jugs of water beside bushes for migrants who might otherwise die from dehydration.

He calls the barrier there “the wall of death and a wall of shame.”



“This wall of Operation Gatekeeper, from 1994, has led to the death of more than 11,000 people,” Morones said, using a figure that he says accounts for both sides of the border.

Morones laments that many of those who perished remain unidentified and unknown to the world.

“You’ll recognize the image of the little boy with the red T-shirt on, face down in the Mediterranean Sea … but nobody has ever seen the picture of Marco Antonio Villasenor, a boy almost the same age,” he said. “He was five years old, and he died crossing the desert into Texas with 18 men.”

Ev Meade, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, says many are under the false impression that the border is “open,” due to the lack of a physical wall along 2,000 kilometers of land.

In addition to aerial technology, Meade says the treacherous mountain ranges along the Sonoran Desert with Arizona already serve as deadly natural barriers.

“It’s a searing desert with mountain ranges that aren’t precisely parallel, meaning that it is very difficult to know where you are.”

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Related: Catholics South of U.S. Border Say Trump's Wall Won't Deter Desperate Migrants (Catholic News Service)

Related: A Border Wall Already Exists in Some Places. We Visited It. (National Geographic)

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