Rainstorm runoff topples border fence, floods Western Avenue

Rainstorm runoff topples border fence, floods Western Avenue

Runoff from a #monsoon downpour toppled a section of border fence west of the Mariposa Port of Entry overnight Saturday, sending a torrent of debris-filled floodwater down Ephriam Canyon and into yards and homes along Western Avenue.

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Smugglers cut through border fence in #Ariz.

The U.S. Border Patrol has another gap in the border fence on its hands.

On Saturday, agents discovered a garage-sized hole through a steel fence that divides the United States and Mexico just east of #Nogales, Arizona.

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Rains, smugglers damage US-Mexico border fence

U.S. Border Patrol officials said Wednesday that agents discovered a garage-sized hole through a steel fence that divides the United States and Mexico just east of Nogales, Arizona.

The announcement was the second one this week about problems with the border fence. On Sunday, agents found that runoff water from rainstorms during the weekend had also knocked down 60 feet of the rebar-reinforced steel fence just west of the Nogales-Mariposa Port of Entry near Interstate 19 in Nogales. That fence stood between 18 and 26 feet high and extended at least 7 feet underground.

The hole in a section of the fence 1 1/2 miles east of the Nogales city limits was discovered by agents on Saturday.

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