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The border has always been wide open, even post-9/11. Initially, there was just a three or four-strand barbed wire fence, often down. During the Bush era, vehicles with makeshift campers carrying 3,000 pounds of marijuana each would drive through, and ultralights would fly northbound towards Phoenix, largely unchecked. Directives were to simply "get eyes on" the ultralights dropping loads.
The first real fence erected could easily be lifted, with people choosing to lift it rather than cut through it to drive vehicles underneath. Contractors were only authorized to make repairs, not improvements, to the "shoddy" fence, creating a constant cycle of daily repairs. The speaker retired from the Border Patrol on June 27th after 20 years.