Login to combat smuggling California, USA with a fence of concrete and steel in the sea


Hot News -  U.S. government is to build a concrete fence and steel about 90 meters in the south Pacific in San Diego, efforts to prevent the view of the dark and dangerous smugglers, the barrier and slipped into the waves California.

The new fence will be at sea on the amount of U.S. $ 4.3 million from the US-Mexico border at sea between San Diego and Tijuana in Mexico's industrial heart of the north-west.

"Fences surfing" is a new obstacle and 18 meter high steel poles to replace your line of porous concrete, and not enough.

"It's dirty, it is not necessary, it seems some bad teeth," said the representative of the Agency for the Protection of customs and border authorities, Ralph Desio.

"It would be much better for the region, but also strengthen our ability to prevent dangerous smuggling efforts along the coast," Desio said, quoted by Reuters.

Federal Government in recent years, the guard at the border fence along the U.S. border with Mexico moving south to prevent illegal immigrants and drug smugglers are added to the territory of the United States.

The U.S. Congress also called for the construction of a fence along the miles 1040-3200 miles along the state border.

Recent experiments, the north country by the sea in Imperial Beach, south of San Diego gave two marijuana smuggler involved in 2009. Illegal goods are placed on a surfboard. Two more illegal immigrants to use an underwater scooter, was arrested in February last year.

Illegal immigrants also have become final barrier to the sea, swimming in the area of ​​Border State Park in California there. A man drowned when he tried to make the trip in November.

Efforts to repair, when to do the smugglers and their efforts to use fishing boats to bring illegal immigrants and tons of marijuana in the coastal region of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.

There are 14 events in both countries since October last year.

More resistant to attack the waves of the Pacific Ocean, a new barrier - and its completion is scheduled in March - with a protective layer that covers the inside and outside and filled with concrete. This barrier is expected to last 30 years, said Desio.

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