Trump’s border wall breached by smugglers over 3,000 times, records reveal

The barrier Trump touted as impenetrable' can be breached with common power tools, the Washington Post reports

Smugglers have breached the Trump administration's border wall along the US-Mexico frontier more than 3,000 times, government maintenance records obtained by the Washington Post reveal.

Nearly 500 miles of barrier was constructed by the Trump administration beginning in 2019, mostly in rural New Mexico and Arizona. Former president Trump touted the big, beautiful wall" as the Rolls-Royce" of barriers, but smugglers have breached the wall at least 3,272 times, mostly with common power tools found at hardware stores.