Despite complaints, soldiers add more wire to Nogales border fence (Dangerous RAZOR wire)...
I have read about this wire and seen it referred to as razor wire.
I see they talked with Sen. Martha McSally (R-Tucson) about this. Doubt she is concerned!!
Despite complaints, soldiers add more wire to Nogales border fence
https://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/despite-complaints-soldiers-add-more-wire-to-nogales-border-fence/article_d4397ff2-28b7-11e9-94ff-e36237f3a29f.html
By Nick Phillips Feb 4, 2019 Updated Feb 6, 2019
Amid calls from local officials to remove the existing concertina wire attached to the border fence, U.S. Army troops on Saturday installed new rows of wire on the fence near downtown ports of entry and in residential neighborhoods of Nogales, giving the barrier top-to-bottom coverage in some areas.
“I don’t know what to say, I don’t think it’s good,” said José Corralez, a 54-year-old taxi driver from Nogales. “It looks ugly.”
The installation of the wire began downtown on Election Day 2018, and in recent weeks, military personnel have installed additional coils on remote sections of the fence, including south of Kino Springs, east of city limits. On Saturday, they added up to four new rows of concertina wire to the two rows that were hung on the 25-foot-tall bollard fence in November.
Elected officials in Nogales were left in the dark about the plans.
“They never had the courtesy of talking to the administration here,” said Mayor Arturo Garino, who asked Sen. Martha McSally (R-Tucson) during a visit on Jan. 22 to do her part to help get rid of the existing wire, then re-affirmed his plans to fight for its removal in a story published last Friday in the NI.
“We reached out to Border Patrol and we reached out to CBP and they would not meet with us,” he added.
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Speaking by phone Monday morning, Garino said he’s concerned for residents’ safety.
“That wire is lethal, and I really don’t know what they’re thinking by putting it all the way down to the ground,” he said.
That afternoon, Garino added an item to Wednesday’s city council meeting that would have the municipal government pass a resolution condemning the wire and demanding it be taken down.
U.S. Rep. Grijalva (D-Tucson), who represents Nogales and all of Santa Cruz County in Congress, blasted the move to add wire to the fence and called for it to be removed.
“The additional wire is nothing more than a spectacle by the Trump administration to reinforce his twisted narrative of rampant lawlessness at the border,” he said Monday in an emailed statement.
“Border residents know that this mischaracterization couldn’t be further from the truth, and will not stand for the lies perpetrated by the Trump Administration,” he said. “This wire must be removed, and the Trump Administration must take responsibility for the humanitarian crisis their policies have created at the border.”
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Army troops unload coils of concertina wire to mount on the border fence in downtown Nogales on Saturday, Feb. 2.
Photo by Jonathan Clark
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A rope tangled in the wire atop the fence next to the Morley Avenue pedestrian border-crossing suggests an effort to pull it down.
Photo by Jonathan Clark
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New wire
A school bus rolls past the concertina wire-covered fence at East International and Nelson streets on Monday morning.
Photo by Jonathan Clark
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Army troops affix additional concertina wire to the border fence on a hillside above Nelson Street in downtown Nogales on Saturday, Feb. 2. Photo by Jonathan Clark
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The Army had previously strung two rows of wire at the top of the border fence at East International and Nelson streets in downtown Nogales. Now there are six.[/b Photo by Jonathan Clark
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