Wall designed to block already inhospitable mountain region
(NEWSER) - Critics are still gnashing their teeth over the Otay Mountain border fence, a 3.6-mile barrier that’s among the most costly and, according to detractors, least necessary ever built. The recently completed $57.7-million fence stands atop an inhospitable mountain just east of San Diego, and critics doubt that a would-be immigrant, after braving that 3,500-foot ascent, would be deterred by an 18-foot fence, the LA Times reports. The Department of Homeland Security even deemed it unnecessary in 2006. More»
