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If You Build It, They Will (Still) Come. The Border Fence and the Moat, (On the Arizona-Sonora Border) Consuelo Crow,  January 26, 2013, mexmigration.blogspot"Moderator’s Note: We have been reporting on the deployment of advanced surveillance and apprehension technologies on the US-Mexico border – including our continuing coverage of controversial drones by Customs and Border Enforcement (CBE). It is therefore with a great sense of ironic glee that we present this amazing report by our colleague, Consuelo Crow, on the use of medieval age technologies on both sides of the border. The US side builds border wall with moats and the other side responds with catapults and other “siege weapons.”Of course, we have always known this would happen and that the border fence will prove itself to be a boondoggle. I predict it is only a matter of time before the cartels on the Mexican side start blowing some serious holes through the fence. It won’t last; this is not the Great Wall of China.In today’s blog, Consuelo Crow, our special guest blogger, offers a very detailed, close-up look at the border fence. Over the past several months, Ms. Crow has been traveling along the border in the Arizona desert. One result of these travels is today’s insightful photo-documentary essay, which reminds us how the border fence as a deterrence technology is really often nothing more than a death sentence for tired, dehydrated, and hungry immigrants who, on the last leg of their torturous journey, encounter an unforgiving medieval technology in the form of a moat between a sharp-edged but poorly designed fencing." (Devon G. Peña)Read :http://mexmigration.blogspot.frCredit photo : Consuelo Crow, ibidem