{"id":1628656,"date":"2022-08-31T17:19:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628656"},"modified":"2022-08-31T17:20:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:20:48","slug":"gates-left-open-to-prevent-flooding-highlight-breaches-weaknesses-in-arizonas-wall-with-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gates-left-open-to-prevent-flooding-highlight-breaches-weaknesses-in-arizonas-wall-with-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates Left Open to Prevent Flooding Highlight Breaches, Weaknesses In Arizona\u2019s Wall With Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgates-left-open-to-prevent-flooding-highlight-breaches-weaknesses-in-arizonas-wall-with-mexico%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628656&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>This is the fourth article in a series on illegal drug and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-human-smuggling\">human smuggling<\/a> along Arizona\u2019s border with Mexico.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DOUGLAS, Ariz.\u2014The Chevy pickup truck growled like a wary pitbull as it crept along the narrow dirt road parallel to Arizona\u2019s southern border wall fence with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Sam, the owner of a private Arizona security firm, stopped the truck and put the gear in park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re on the Roosevelt Easement right now,\u201d he says bluntly. \u201cThe federal government owns this entire road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Something, though, was glaringly out of place on Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/31\/DSC03361-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Kyle, a security specialist in Arizona, stands in front of open floodgates along the Arizona border wall with Mexico on Aug. 24. (Allan Stein\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>Three massive irrigation gates built into the steel border wall fence were open for anyone to walk through.<\/p>\n<p>On the Mexican side of the border wall, fresh water bottles lay on the ground, covered in dew.\u00a0Someone had also left origami puppets with the words \u201cPeace\u201d and notes in Spanish and English in plastic zip-lock bags.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down the walls that separate us,\u201d the note read.<\/p>\n<p>Humanitarians leave water bottles, food for the illegals, and even children\u2019s toys to pick up as they cross into the United States through the open gates, says Sam, the pseudonym he uses to protect his identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s another open gate \u201cbigger than this one, down that way,\u201d he says, pointing up the easement. \u201cThere are five or six gates like this\u201d\u2014all open.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/31\/DSC03723-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> The Roosevelt Easement is a 60-foot-wife stretch of federal land spanning three U.S. border states, inlcuding Arizona. Here, the easement runs parellel to the border wall in Douglas, Ariz., on Aug. 24. (Allan Stein\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fourth article in a series on illegal drug and human smuggling along Arizona\u2019s border with Mexico. DOUGLAS, Ariz.\u2014The Chevy pickup truck growled like a wary pitbull as it crept along the narrow dirt road parallel to Arizona\u2019s southern border wall fence with Mexico. Sam, the owner of a private Arizona security firm, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}