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Full Measure After Hours

After Hours EP 007 | Border Control... Without Help from the Feds

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, News Commentary

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sharyl and investigative producer Daniel Steinberger talk about their trip to the Southern border where they found one county in Arizona taking care of business without federal funds or federal agents. We also talk about  what we saw in terms of new border walls and fencing. Watch Full Measure every Sunday or anytime it's convenient. Find out how and where by clicking here. Meantime, subscribe to this podcast and to "The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast." Follow us on Twitter @FullMeasureAH @SharylPodcast Do your own research. Make up your own mind. Think for yourself. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sharylattkisson/supportSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:35.0

Well I will say I think maybe my first border trip as a reporter to do border

0:40.8

stories was 10 12 years ago at CBS News. The wall that I saw

0:45.5

or the fencing is totally different than when I first went there. It used to be

0:50.0

this, I call it corrugated metal, it looks like crinkly sheets of metal, and was not very effective

0:56.9

apparently.

0:58.2

That's now been replaced with these giant fency things.

1:02.3

You have some visibility you can see through. It almost looks like rusty metal, but it's not rusty. It's designed to look this way and be this way, but it's very strong steel of some kind. And then as you you said many sections they've extended I forget

1:15.2

how many more feet maybe another 12 feet on top of the height that used to be there and

1:20.5

then one of the biggest differences, what you mentioned,

1:23.0

when I was here some years ago, I asked a Border Patrol agent who was showing me along the fencing or the wall.

1:28.0

I said, why isn't there barbed wire?

1:30.0

Because people were climbing over easily.

1:32.0

Driving over with ramps, climbing over, whatever.

1:34.5

He said, well, we're told we can't put up barbed wire

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