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'It's really done nothing for us'



The Texans who live on the ‘Mexican side’ of the border fence: ‘Technically, we’re in the United States’

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This will be Taylor's fourth Christmas living on what some Texans call the "Mexican side" of the U.S. border fence. Although she lives in Texas, her home is south of the 18-feet steel-and-concrete border wall erected by the American government. Taylor, who is 84, can see it from her front porch.
The wall was built to satisfy a law, passed in 2006 and 2008, that authorized 700 miles of fence on the southern border, 315 miles of it in Texas. President Bush said the fence would make the border safer and was "an important step toward immigration reform." Many of the 2012 Republican presidential candidates, with the exception of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, say they want to build a fence that spans the entire U.S. border. The Brownsville area shows just how complicated that project would be.

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Some Texans, like Taylor, live completely on the other side of the $6.2 million-a-mile wall

$6,200,000 * 700 = $4,340,000,000 on a dumb wall

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"It's really done nothing for us because they're still coming across," Taylor says.