Border Vets group patching up gaps in California border wall that have been ignored by feds
A group of California veterans have taken it upon themselves to seal gaps in the US-Mexico border, planting metal stakes and razor wire in hotspots where thousands of migrants have been illegally sneaking through.
The “Border Vets” have been focussing their work on Jacumba Hot Springs in the mountains around 60 miles east of San Diego, which has become a popular migrant crossing in recent months.
“Whoever it is you’re waiting to do this for you, they’re not coming. It’s going to be people like us, people like America’s veterans,” retired marine Kate Monroe told Border Report.
“It’s really serious for everybody here that we protect our nation. The holes that we can find (in the border wall), we’re going to go ahead and get the razor wire and do our best to defend our country.”
Customs and Border Protection emphasizes the public is prohibited from altering, modifying, or fixing the border barrier, and only authorized border patrol agents and contractors have that authority.
Despite that, Monroe said the vets carry out their work routinely and claimed the border patrol agents they’ve encountered don’t stop them putting up razor wire and are generally grateful for their help.
Migrants — increasingly arriving from Central Asia, Africa and China, as well as South America — illegally sneak across the border near Jacumba Hot Springs and wait at an unofficial camp for Border Patrol, who arrive with buses and transport them to a processing facility.
If they are deemed elligible to pursue asylum applications, they are then given papers and allowed into the country.
According to officials, more than 1,300 newly arrived migrants were dropped on the streets of San Diego over the weekend, completely overwhelming their resources, after the welcome center that helped process them was forced to close due to a lack of funding.
“This is entirely the fault of the Federal Government for its open border policies and the State of California for incentivizing people from around the world to come here,” San Diego County supervisor Jim Desmond blasted in a tweet posted Sunday.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data obtained by Fox News reveals nearly 140,000 illegal immigrants in total have crossed into the San Diego sector since Fiscal Year 2024 began on October 1st.
“The Border Patrol tells us we’re going to go from about 300 drop-offs a day to maybe a thousand drop-offs a day,” Mayor Bill Wells said Thursday.
Nearly 7.3 million encounters have been recorded at the border under President Biden, a number greater than the population of 36 individual states. The majority of those encounters were with migrants hoping to start a new life in the US.
Customs and Border Protection has already reported 961,537 border encounters in the current fiscal year, which runs from October through September.
If the current pace of illegal immigration does not slow down, fiscal year 2024 will break last year’s record of 2,475,669 border encounters nationwide.
