US-Mexico Border Wall Built By Donald Trump Breached 3,200 Times: Report
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US Customs and Border Protection records showed that government spent $2.6 million to repair the breaches in Mexico border wall in three years.
The massive wall that straddles the border between the United States and Mexico has been breached thousands of times recently, according to Washington Post. The newspaper obtained unpublished records from documents from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which showed that the wall was breached 3,272 times in the past three years.
The records were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the Post said. The breaches were a result of Mexican smuggling gangs sawing through new segments of the border wall, the document showed.
The records further showed that the US government spent a whopping $2.6 million to repair the breaches during the 2019 to 2021 fiscal years.
According to CBP records, the damage has been more widespread than previously known, pointing to the structure's limitations as an impediment to illegal crossings, said the Post.
