Beyond the wall: The truth about fencing the U.S.-Mexico border
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Ten years after a team of Arizona Daily Star journalists determined that canyons, mountains and rivers made fencing the U.S.-Mexico border nearly impossible, a new team returned to analyze Donald Trump's plan to build a "beautiful wall." Read their findings at tucson.com/beyondthewall
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Much of the border is already fenced β adding more wouldn't keep out drugs, which are smuggled through legal ports of entry
Things have improved but there is still more to do.
More information
- Arizona border-watch leader, Chris Simcox, gets 19 years for molestation
- Report: Border Patrol overtime, pension plan could backfire in long term
- What Trump might do: Can he build a border wall?
- What Trump might do: Can he send 'Dreamers' back to countries they don't remember?
- What Trump might do: Can he yank the U.S. out of NAFTA?
- What can Trump do? Sorting out his immigration plans
- Air cannon used to fire marijuana bundles over Arizona's border fence
- Arizona electoral voters flooded with pleas, threats not to vote for Trump
- More drug profits slipping into Mexico as border seizures plummet
- 2 teens face charges in shots fired at Border Patrol vehicle
- New guidelines cut sentences for illegal border-crossing
- Getting up to speed on U.S. immigration laws
- S. Arizona's congressional leaders concerned about immigration, refugee ban
- Appeals court upholds Tucson drug conviction of trafficking scout
- Border sheriffs praise DHS head in Nogales visit
- Catapult attached to border fence launched marijuana into Arizona
- Previous National Guard deployments on Arizona border
- 11 arrested on suspicion of supplying drug smugglers on O'odham land
- Fraudulent ID busts down at border ports of entry
- As border wall planning begins, GAO details state of current fencing
- Ex-BP agent sentenced to 13 years for cocaine smuggling, bribery
- Arrest by ICE at Tucson courthouse concerns judge
- Feds want to ease jaguar protections to build border wall
- 4 from Green Valley, Sahuarita arrested in smuggling of guns to Hong Kong
- Illegal crossers being snatched for ransom on O'odham land
- Most hard drugs smuggled through legal border crossings
- Agencies keep details under wraps regarding $2B in illegal-immigration detention
- Steller: Trump transcript helps kill border wall idea β finally
- Border Patrol agents accused of stealing $100K in gun parts are on trial
- Tucson's new Border Patrol chief: Keeping agents posted near the border a priority
- Judges question Border Patrol's checkpoint rules for observers, protesters
- Steve Bannon's 'MAGA original gangsters' raise money here for private border wall
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