A group of California veterans are joining forces to close gaps in the southern border wall, according to a Friday article from Border Report.
Border Vets, a coalition of military veterans, is taking the border crisis into its own hands by using metal stakes and razor wire to seal off holes in the southern border wall that have become hot spots for illegal migrant crossings. The group has been focusing its efforts on patching gaps near Jacumba Hot Springs, located in the mountains 60 miles east of San Diego.
Kate Monroe, a retired Marine, told Border Report, âItâs really serious for everybody here that we protect our nation. The holes that we can find [in the border wall], weâre going to go ahead and get the razor wire and do our best to defend our country.â
âWhoever it is youâre waiting to do this for you, theyâre not coming. Itâs going to be people like us, people like Americaâs veterans,â she added.
According to Monroe, the coalition of veterans has routinely completed this type of work at the southern border. Border Vets plans to return to the incomplete wall on Thursday to make additional repairs.
The group continues to execute the work despite the Border Patrolâs warnings that only agents and government contractors are legally allowed to alter, modify, or fix the border wall.
Monroe told Border Report that the group has received primarily positive feedback from Border Patrol agents. She noted that the veterans have not been stopped from putting up the razor wire.
âThatâs not going to stop us or deter us from coming here,â she stated, noting that smugglers are likely to tear down the groupâs work eventually. âIf we can stop them for one day, one hour, one week, weâve stopped more people from coming into our country.â
Monroe recently posted a video on social media of her closing a gap in the border wall with razor wire.
âWeâre standing right now at the spot thatâs been all over the news. A lot of people have come out here to film this hole in the wall,â Monroe told viewers. âNo one has yet to come and secure this hole in the fence. If you want something done, sometimes you got to do it yourself.â
âWhat good is a wall if you can walk right around the corner of the wall?â she asked.
Monroe then walked from the American side of the border to Mexico and back again, stating, âOkay, Iâm going to cross back over. Itâd be super cool if you could pick me up. Iâd like my free health care. Iâd like my plane ticket, my new clothes, my lunch, my cell phone. America, youâre being gaslit. We did not have a secure border.â
Illegal migrants, many from Central Asia, Africa, China, and South America, who cross into the U.S. near Jacumba Hot Springs wait in an unofficial camp to be picked up by Border Patrol agents, who then move them to a processing facility, the New York Post reported.
On Thursday, a migrant center in San Diego was forced to shut its doors after its overwhelmed facility ran out of funds, according to Fox News Digital. Officials reported that 1,300 illegal immigrants were released onto the streets of the city over the weekend following the shelterâs recent closure.
Jim Desmond, San Diego County supervisor, stated, âThis 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.â
âWe in San Diego County, weâre getting a lot of people from all over the world coming across our borders, primarily through the Jacumba area,â he explained. âAnd whatâs unfortunate, and I think is kind of scary for people of this country, is a lot of these people [being released into the U.S.] arenât vetted by the Border Patrol.â
He noted that the vast majority of the illegal migrants being dropped off in the country are single adult males.
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