{"id":919,"date":"2013-06-11T00:44:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T06:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2013-06-05T09:44:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:44:44","slug":"immigrants-get-stuck-trying-to-drive-over-border-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/11\/immigrants-get-stuck-trying-to-drive-over-border-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrants get stuck trying to drive over border fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.smh.com.au\/2012\/11\/02\/3763536\/dh_stuck-20121102100642243070-620x349.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.smh.com.au\/2012\/11\/02\/3763538\/dh_stuck2-20121102100746144208-300x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hapless immigrants who tried a novel way of entering the United States &#8211; by driving a car over the US-Mexico border fence on makeshift ramps &#8211; failed when the vehicle got stuck on top.<\/p>\n<p>Two people fled back into Mexico after US border guards spotted the bold attempt to scale the four-metre-high fence in the early hours of Tuesday, said the US Custom and Border Patrol agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Agents patrolling in the Imperial Sand Dunes area encountered a silver Jeep Cherokee attempting to drive over the International Boundary fence using a makeshift ramp that was not quite up to the task,&#8221; said a CBP statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the vehicle made it to the top of the ramp, it became high-centred &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As agents arrived on scene, two subjects fled into Mexico. After removing the Jeep from the fence, agents seized both the vehicle and the ramps,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>US authorities have long battled to contain illegal immigration and smuggling across the southern border with Mexico, and the region is plagued by violence linked to traffickers of drugs and humans.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 a border patrol agent was killed near the area where the car got stuck on ramps when he was deliberately struck by a vehicle as he tried to deflate its tyres.<\/p>\n<p>Tunnels underneath the border are regularly unearthed, some of them with highly sophisticated equipment and ventilation systems, and entrances typically concealed in warehouses or other structures near the frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hapless immigrants who tried a novel way of entering the United States &#8211; by driving a car over the US-Mexico border fence on makeshift ramps &#8211; failed when the vehicle got stuck on top. Two people fled back into Mexico after US border guards spotted the bold attempt to scale the four-metre-high fence in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}