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A man is halted climbing the US-Mexico border wall. Under new Trump rules, US troops sound the alarm
Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of this Arizona frontier community.
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