The Border Wall’s Newest Makeover in the “Concertina Poster City”

A quest to figure out what is happening with the razor wire in Nogales. Part of it has been removed. But is this permanent? And what does this have to do with new technology? Read on!

Removal of concertina wire from the border wall in Nogales in April. (Photo credit: Tom Vaughan/FeVa Fotos)

I had to do a double take. The razor wire, which had draped down over the border wall in Nogales, Arizona, for five years, was suddenly gone. I was just west of the DeConcini port of entry. This part of the border wall slopes up a hill, the same hi…