DARK SECRETS: Greg abbott s jankety border wall - The Real Truth

The Texas border wall has never been a terribly smart idea. Up front, it costs tens of millions of dollars per mile to erect, only to require millions more in perpetuity as migrants and smugglers climb, cut, and tunnel their way through anyway. It entangles federal lawyers in years-long court battles to wrench private land from deeply rooted Texas families, and it presents flood mitigation headaches along the Rio Grande. All for what amounts to a tall speed bump for border-crossers, many of whom are simply exercising their legal right to request asylum.

Leave it to Republican Governor Greg Abbott, though, who’s attempting to take over the wall-building crusade after President Biden halted Trump’s plans, to make a dumb idea dumber. The term “border wall” has long carried some semantic ambiguity: In practice it has referred to tall steel border fencing, sometimes placed atop a concrete wall. Now, Abbott’s stretched the term past breaking, using “steel wall” to designate both a line of state trooper vehicles in Del Rio and, as of this week, a row of shipping containers placed along the riverbank in Eagle Pass. Elsewhere, the state has erected chain link fencing, in the hopes of prosecuting fence-cutters or jumpers for criminal trespass.