Some Surprisingly Easy Ways to Defeat Trump's Vanity Wall Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

This story is actually a couple of years old, but it still illustrates just how easily Trump's vanity wall can be defeated.

There are sections along the border where a wall already exists. My son and I saw such a section when we visited Nogales. Splitting Nogales, Arizona with Nogales, in the Sonoran state of Mexico, there is a wall that serves almost as a visible scar upon the land. It just so clearly is not natural, and it cuts right through what is otherwise a wide open landscape, which is how most of the southwestern region of the United States, and the northern region of Mexico, tends to be. 

A very similar looking wall seems to straddle the Mexican border on the San Diego side, based upon the pictures that I have seen (although admittedly, I never myself visited San Diego yet). It is not exactly a "wall" per se, but it is clearly a barrier that divides one side from another. As the pictures above illustrate, it almost looked more like the bars of a prison cell, which is, perhaps, not coincidental. I guess it is more cost effective that way, as well. And it went on for as far as the eye could see, at least in Nogales. 

Now, the southern region of Arizona has some very steep mountains. They might not have snow on top year round, like some of the taller mountains in the Rockies, but they are visibly tall and forbidding. Couple that with the knowledge of how tough it is to pass through this desert land, where temperatures regularly soar well over 100 (37.7 Celcius), and even 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celcius), and you pretty much already have a border that is extremely difficult to access in the more remote regions. And this southwestern desert stretches, of course, from California to the west, to the western extreme of Texas, although Texas is divided from Mexico along it's southern border by another natural border: the Rio Grande. 

So, while it is at least not really all that surprising that fences and/or something that could be described as a wall might have been put up along border towns like Nogales and San Diego, there appears to be little sense to make an actual wall or fence literally run along the entire border, or even a considerable part of it. 

Then, when you consider how easily such a wall or fence could be beaten, it really feels like a waste of money. Many people have suggested that a ladder could be used. One Mexican politician actually climbed over the fence in San Diego. 

And here is a link to a story showing a catapult, which is not new technology, having been placed next to the wall to hurl drugs over the border fence/wall. Of course, a wall is not exactly new technology, either, is it? Almost seems like a solution from centuries ago, for a very modern and complex problem, does it not? 

Drug catapult found at U.S.-Mexico border by Border Patrol agents UPDATED ON: FEBRUARY 15, 2017:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drug-catapult-us-mexico-border-patrol-agents/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=34541028&fbclid=IwAR0K2-PCpaVbcAqFJuGoqrLLx_uS1xns71tWDMrwLZuFBtWR9SmnMp4oUfc