• Thassodar@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    I’ve never been to the border but isn’t there a checkpoint on the roads with spike strips and such? WTH is border patrol if they can’t get a blockage at the border for someone fleeing for 20+ minutes?

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      “We don’t want this car forcing its way through the entry, hurting other people,” CHP Sgt. Esteban Hernandez told the Los Angeles Times.

      Does seem logical. They know who it is. There’s no need to create a situation where she’s full speed ramming a gate arm at the border.