The Border Patrol opens a gate to the mesh covered fence area during weekends and allows no more than 25 people at a time to gather there. They get together between the metal mesh. Border Patrol ...

up to a 20-foot-tall metal and concrete border fence — and passed right through a gap in the barrier wide enough for a tractor-trailer. Because of international treaty and flood zone ...

Metal mesh fences consist of metal wire or mesh. The pedestrian fencing is mostly 12 to 18 feet high, typically anchored with a concrete foundation. There are various combinations and hybrids.

Border Patrol says smuggler used ramp ... The smugglers had driven their silver SUV up a metal ramp on the Mexican side of the fence and were trying to drive down a ramp on the U.S. side when ...

Instead of building new walls, the Department of Homeland Security has replaced old barriers in some border areas and erected new fences in a few locations. Those metal barriers mostly are 12 to ...

A 15-to-18-foot tall metal border fence, which residents refer to as a wall, has stood between the neighborhood and the concrete riverbed for years. “We already have a wall — to us, ...

The average cost of 140 miles of pedestrian fencing put up under the Secure Border Initiative in 2005-2008 was $3.9 million per mile, with costs ranging from $400,000 to $15.1 million a mile, a ...