New border fence

NOGALES - The new 18-foot border fence along the Arizona-Mexico border has already been broken through - and it's not even completely installed yet.
The Federal Government is close to completing a new and improved border fence south of Bisbee. The new project features Bollard style fencing that stands 18 feet tall with a deeper base to help prevent tunneling.
Richard Hodges' family has owned land in Bisbee Junction, along the Mexico border since the 1890's. He grew up watching Illegal immigrants crossing the border. In recent years he says the situation has grown more dangerous. In recent years Hodge's says the situation has grown more dangerous with armed drug runners and human smugglers crossing his land.
He had high hopes that the new border fence would slow them down, but over the weekend Hodges
found a big hole in the new fence.
"I'm totally disgusted!" Hodges said. The hole in the wall is already repaired but Hodges showed News 4 Tucson where the breach was made.
"This section right here, 12 of these [poles] were down, they were laying on the ground," Hodges says. He blames drug runners.
"They cut the steel right here and once the steel was cut all the way around, they put a strap around it and pulled it down," he said.
Hodges pointed to tracks in the dirt on the Mexican side of the border.
"You can see on the ground over there that it was a large truck that drove into the United States."
Hodges says the new fence is a big improvement. He doesn't see many families crossing the border these days, but he still sees plenty of border-crossers.
"The people we do have, everyone of them is a drug runner. The 20-somethings down into the late teens, they can scale this fence, I've seen them catapult drugs over this wall, they're very quick about it," said Hodges.
That has Hodges feeling unsafe.
"Absolutely, because you're talking about someone at that point that would not think twice about killing you, even if you just happened to see the vehicle they might kill you just so you can't tell anybody," Hodges said.

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