'Regardless of what they build, they're still coming in,' one resident said. 'This is just political crap.'
"We didn't ask for the national spotlight," Perea said."It did catch everyone by surprise and when you have low resources, it's hard to respond."
The group walked about a block before they were stopped by an agent with the International Boundary and Water Commission, the agency that addresses waterway issues between the US and Mexico. The IBWC agent said he's already seen migrants carving new paths around the private border wall. Some are willing to cross through the river — a potentially dangerous endeavor when waters begin to rise. Others are making the trek, with children in hand, across a higher, steeper hill nearby.
"I think it's a lot of political theater," the 44-year-old El Paso resident said."They're trying to get a point across."A privately-funded fence along the U.S.-Mexico border is constructed on private property owned by the American Eagle Brick Company in Sunland Park, New Mexico, on June 1, 2019. It's a sentiment echoed by Jose Luis Uñiga, who runs a food truck in town and often works late."Only someone who is out, like me, at one or two in the morning knows what's going on," he said.
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