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US-Mexico border wall, “world-class security system” will be virtually impenetrable : Trump

US President Donald Trump toured a section of the border wall in San Diego’s Otay Mesa area. It was a return trip for the President, who traveled there in March 2018 to see border wall prototypes that authorities later destroyed to make way for 14 miles (22.4 kilometers) of steel, concrete-filled bollards currently under construction. Before construction began, the border in Otay Mesa was protected with low fencing. U.S. President Donald Trump signed his name on Wednesday on a newly constructed section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, calling it a “world-class security system” that will be “virtually impenetrable”. “It was like a sheet metal and people would just knock it over like just routinely,” Mr. Trump said, standing with construction workers and top Customs, Army Corps of Engineers and homeland security officials.
Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said that since construction has begun on the new barrier, 30 to 50 people a day are trying to cross there instead of 300 to 500.
“The traffic in this sector has dropped dramatically,” Mr. Morgan said.
Mr. Morgan defended the project, dismissing those who call it the “president’s vanity wall.” “I’m here to tell you that’s false,” he said, telling reporters that Mr. Trump reached out to border experts to find out what they needed. “You listened to the agents,” he told Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump highlighted features of the wall, which he said have been studied by three other countries. He said the wall absorbs heat — “You can fry an egg on that wall.”
The concrete goes deep into the ground to prevent tunneling. And agents can see through it to spot possible threats on the Mexican side of the border, he said.
“When the wall is built, it will be virtually impossible to come over illegally, and then we’re able to take border control and put them at points of entry,” Mr. Trump said.

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