It gets even weirder - the "no touching" zone doesn't actually align with the border perfectly in some places. Mostly these are places where it would be really inconvenient to run true to the border, such as small, steep gulch, so they just ran around it.

I know biologists doing wildlife surveys who have had to notify US Border Patrol that "while they would appear to be across the border, they wouldn't actually be across, because the border boundary is wrong at such and such a spot"

And to be fair to the Border Patrol, I've never heard of anyone being seriously hassled about this, as long as the Patrol was notified in advance.

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Ha.. that was great.

Now do the southern border!!! That would be much more exciting, the shootings, the drug trafficking, the dying of dehydration, the fence, the lack of fence, the fence with holes, the towers, the net migration of zero as mexicans move back home as the US economy keeps tanking, you know fun stuff!!!!

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Some of our border crossings were "protected" by traffic cones.

Seriously. A road heads south, and where it crosses the border, they put up traffic cones to stop people crossing.

The really weird thing is up until 9/11, it worked like a charm.

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