[T]he “border crisis” narrative ignores several important differences between 2000 and 2021—the number of successful border crossings, the legal situation of the migrants who arrive, and the impact of a global pandemic.
By David L. Wilson, MR Online
October 29, 2021
In July, environmental activist Laiken Jordahl tweeted out a short video featuring what he called “the almighty border wall,” a section of fence at the Coronado National Forest in Arizona. The fence there includes several gates that need to be kept open at times of heavy rain. Without them, explained Jordahl, a staffer at Tucson’s Center for Biological Diversity, debris would accumulate behind the structure and floodwaters would eventually knock the wall down.
The gates were wide open. The only barrier was a few strands
of barbed wire: anyone could easily have clipped the wire and walked through.
No Border Patrol agents were in sight; neither were any would-be migrants.[…]
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https://mronline.org/2021/10/29/the-border-crisis-numbers-dont-add-up/
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