The Christian Science Monitor reports on the border fence between the US and Mexico as being built in patchwork fashion.

From the CS Monitor:

After driving 10 miles along the expanded US-Mexican border fence near her farm, Dawn Garner offers her dour assessment: “Anyone can plainly see this wouldn’t stop a flea, let alone a migrant or terrorist.”A jagged patchwork of metal mesh, corrugated steel, vertical bollards, chest-high railroad rails, and waist-high barbed wire has been cobbled together along the southern border east of Naco by various National Guard units over the past summer. Hard-hatted workers from a general contractor, Sundt Inc., continue to dig ditches and grade terrain across plains of fluorescent-green prairie grass framed by saw-toothed mountains.

“This [fence] is just too easy to cut into, climb over, or go under or around,” says Ms. Garner. Twenty to 40 illegal migrant workers cut across her five-acre farm daily, she says.

Unlike in San Luis, Ariz., and San Diego, where double-and- triple metal walls are backed by lighting and cameras, the fencing being built along this part of the US-Mexican border is piecemeal. Such a fence is pointless, say local ranchers.

The border patrol, however, contends that it is cost-effective, and more potent than it seems.

6.2 million people from Mexico are estimated to be in the United States illegally.