In this country, we have a huge problem with illegal immigration, namely that Mexicans cross over onto American soil without proper documentation, often carrying with them a criminal past, or worse – drugs. Not only are the brave men and women that patrol the borders understaffed, but they’re routinely told by the Obama administration to let things go and allow the illegals to cross, free to utilize our social systems and place a huge burden on the taxpayer.
However, border patrol isn’t stupid, and they are quite good at catching the bad guys that try to make it in the country. Here are some borderline hilarious pictures that show just how crazy these criminals are and how desperately we need to secure our borders.
This improvised cannon was confiscated in Mexicali, Mexico, on February 26, 2013. Police in the border city say the cannon was used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence into California. The truck-mounted device is made of PVC piping attached to an air compressor and driven by an automobile engine. It could launch up to 13kg of drugs at a time.
Picture: Mexicali Public Safety Department/AP
A sailor walks past this homemade semi-submersible vessel, seized on land by Colombian authorities from drug traffickers at the Bahia Malaga Navy base, on Colombia’s Pacific coast in 2009.
Picture: Christian Escobar Mora/AP
This powerboat was carrying a large haul of marijuana when the Danish police busted the armed smugglers on January 7, 2013.
Picture: Soren Schnoor/POLFOTO/AP
A woman was arrested by airport police carrying almost 1.4kg of cocaine in her breasts. You can see the drug implants — and the fresh surgical wound — in the image below.
Picture: La Policia Nacional
Suspected smugglers attempt to drive a silver Jeep Cherokee over the 4m high US-Mexico border fence in Yuma, Arizona, with the help of a makeshift ramp on October 31, 2012.
Picture: US Customs and Border Protection/AP
The entrance to an illegal cross-border tunnel found underneath a bathroom sink inside a warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico, July 12, 2012. The 200m tunnel, presumably designed to smuggle drugs into the United States, was lit and ventilated.
Picture: Alejandro Cossio/AP//ICE/AP
National Guard troops have seized a surprising number of weed-firing catapults over the years.
Picture: dossierpolitico.com/National Guard
This ultra-light aircraft was carrying 115kg of marijuana when it was captured in December 2008 in Tucson, Arizona. According to US government statistics, there were 228 known aircraft incursion along the US-Mexico border in 2010 alone.
Picture: Immmigration Customs Enforcement/AP
What to do with that old Wiipad you haven’t touched in years? Stuff it with marijuana, of course.
Picture: US Customs and Border Protection/AP
Drug smugglers used T-shirt cannons to shoot canisters filled with marijuana 150m over the border.
Picture: CBP Arizona/Colin Ybarra
A 19-year-old man pretending to be disabled was caught with at the US-Mexico border with this weed-stocked wheelchair in 2011.
Picture: US Customs and Border Protection/AP
This helicopter was transporting 760kg of cocaine when it crashed in Totonicapan, 200km northwest of Guatemala City, in 2003.
Picture: Edgar Vasquez/El Nuevo Quetzalteco/AP
This plane crashed police blockade after pilots had unloaded drugs into several cars, in San Esteban, 160km east of Tegucigalpa, Honduras (2003).
Picture: Honduran Security Minister/AP
(Source: Business Insider)