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Trump’s Wile E. Coyote Approach to Border Security

Smuggling experts say the president needs to listen to the people who understand the complexities of security and drug policy.
Source: Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters

The president of the United States wants a see-through wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, in part because he’s worried about people getting hit in the head by any bags of drugs that might be hurled over the divide.

“As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them—they hit you on the head with 60

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