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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSmugglers are Sawing Through Trump's Beautiful Wall With $100 Cordless Power Tools
Human traffickers and drug smugglers have repeatedly sawed through the new sections of President Donald Trumps border wall along the southern border, according to the Washington Post. Border agents told the paper that the gangs are adapting commercially-available cordless reciprocating saws that can be fitted with specialized blades that easily slice through the steel and concrete bollards in just a few minutes, making gaps large enough to smuggle humans and drugs through.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall-with-dollar100-cordless-power-tools
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Smugglers are Sawing Through Trump's Beautiful Wall With $100 Cordless Power Tools (Original Post)
Goonch
Nov 2019
OP
"To address this emergency, I need to shutter the State Department, EPA, and FDA!"
struggle4progress
Nov 2019
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struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)1. "To address this emergency, I need to shutter the State Department, EPA, and FDA!"
democrank
(11,104 posts)2. What a big, beautiful wall.
The best wall ever built.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)3. Which friend of Trump will receive a no-bid contract to repair these breaks?
Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)4. The failing #DonaldTrumpWall
What a goddamed joke -- would be funny if it wasn't costing the nation billions...