U.S. President Donald Trump has been promising to build a wall along the southern border of the United States since long before he became commander in chief. It was his biggest campaign promise, which, at the time, he claimed Mexico would be paying for.
Somehow, things have gone very much the other way. Although Trump has not secured the funding he needs in order to build the whole wall just yet, there are parts of the wall that are under construction in some areas. Unfortunately, according to HuffPost, Mexicans have been making the most of this.
The border areas nearby Tijuana, Mexico, received a modicum of protection in November last year in the form of a fence, but between 15 and 20 sneaky individuals in Mexico have seen this as a prime opportunity. Mexican officials have come forward to say that this group of people has recently been arrested after they were found to be stealing concertina wire from the border site.
They have had good reason though: The thieves have been selling the wire to homeowners in Tijuana who have been wanting to beef up their home security against — ironically — other thieves who could be looking to rob them.
The fence was put up last year after news of a large migrant caravan from Central America heading toward the U.S. broke, and Trump ordered troops to put up a fence in an attempt to stop them.
Although funding for border walls and fence has been a contentious point in the U.S. — resulting in the longest government shutdown in history when Trump and the Democrats came to an impasse of the amount of money required — the existing fence that has been stolen was sold to some in Tijuana to protect their homes for the equivalent of just $2.10.
Looks like maybe it’s the U.S. paying for Mexican home security, not Mexicans paying for a U.S. border wall after all.