A man, woman, and a pair of toddlers were caught hopping a border fence from Mexico into the United States — and apparently right next to the border wall prototypes waiting for President Donald Trump's examination Tuesday.
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The foursome's desperate move was included in an NBC News report on increased security ahead of Trump's arrival and the continuing controversy embroiling the border wall — a major campaign promise by the Republican.
NBC News noted in its video that after crossing over the fence the family was detained. But before that, the clip shows a man passing the toddlers over the fence one at a time.
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After the first toddler is over the barrier, the second grabs at the man's legs as he prepares to scale the fence. Plan B apparently is launched as the woman in the group heads over ahead of the second toddler.
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The graffiti on the Mexican side of the fence — and the pile of tires the family used to reach the top of it — is visible in a different video, one that shows the Trump wall prototypes looming in the background.
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During Trump's wall prototype inspections, he said that "if you didn’t have walls over here, you wouldn’t even have a country,” The Associated Press reported.
Here's the NBC News clip:
Indeed, this wasn't the first time news cameras have caught border fence jumpers in that area.
Last October, an MSNBC camera caught folks jumping over the border fence into the U.S. — and it also took place during a segment about the border wall prototypes.
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
(H/T: Hot Air)
