EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Police in Juarez, Mexico, report finding a man on a bicycle with a cache of a dozen pieces or more of U.S. border wall.
Chihuahua state police on Wednesday approached the cyclist in a sparsely populated area of Juarez across the border from Santa Teresa, New Mexico, where smugglers in the past have cut holes hundreds of times on mesh fencing at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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According to the state police, the man had accumulated several pieces of the steel mesh in the brush along the Mexican highway leading to the Santa Teresa, New Mexico, port of entry.
The mesh had been previously pre-cut with metal saws or welding equipment and left in place – a common tactic by smugglers who later return with a truckload of migrants, pull the mesh to let them through and put it back in place…