VIRAL VIDEO: Men Climb “Unclimbable” Border Wall

The Desert Sun reports:



A video taken by a Mexican citizen shows the newly replaced border fence in Mexicali being scaled by two men with a rope ladder, one of whom makes it over to the United States. The 38-second video shows a pair of men climbing the ladder while another holds it on the Mexico side of the border. After one man successfully slides down the railing to the U.S. side and starts running toward a second structure, another begins yelling in Spanish, “Hurry, hurry, jump the fence.”

A vehicle that appears to belong to U.S. Border Patrol then pulls up and officials emerge, prompting the other men to gather the ladder and slide back down the fence into Mexico. The original video was shot from a car and sent to Desert Sun photojournalist Omar Ornelas, who has documented immigration and border security for more than a decade. The Desert Sun is not identifying the source due to fear of retaliation for filming the event.