Early History (1891-1910s) Columbus was established in 1891 just across the Mexican border from Palomas, Chihuahua, Mexico, and named after 15th century explorer Christopher Columbus. In 1902, the village was moved three miles north when the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad built its Columbus Station.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus,_New_Mexico
The U.S. state of New Mexico is under attack by drug cartels and smugglers and little can be done to stop the border violence without federal troops. This state's 180 mile border with Mexico is nearly devoid of human habitation. Isolated ranches and small farms dot the border area. Because the population is so small (less than two million in a state of 50,000 square miles) , little federal funding is available to build adequate border infrastructure.
http://www.usborderpatrol.com/Border_Patrol746.htm
The concept of a wall or fence along virtually the entire border has bubbled up occasionally in the nation’s immigration debate, with some Republicans supporting the idea. Today, there are more than 45 such walls and border fences worldwide, perhaps most prominently Israel’s West Bank barrier.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-on-the-us-mexico-border-building-a-wall-is-easy/2015/07/16/9a619668-2b0c-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html
Deputy Chief Patrol Agent: Benjamine C. Huffman. Service Area: The El Paso Sector covers the entire state of New Mexico and the two western most counties in Texas, Hudspeth and El Paso. This consists of 125,500 square miles, 121,000 square miles in New Mexico and 4,500 square miles in Texas. There are 268 miles of international boundary.
https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/border-patrol-sectors/el-paso-sector-texas
In the News. The Associated Press: NM ranchers worry that sick cows could cross to US. Democracy Now!: Holes in the Wall: Texas Border Wall Bypassing Wealthy Residents with Bush Admin Ties. FOX News: Supreme Court Rejects Case to Stop U.S.-Mexico Border Fence. NPR: Border Tribe in Midst of Drug Smuggling 'Crisis'.
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/527/
“Cotton City Landing Area”, as depicted on the 1964 USGS topo map. Sam Taylor reported in 2016 of the Cotton City Airfield, “My father departed from a small dirt strip some 55 years ago [1961] & perished a few miles [away] in a crash. It used to be maintained by the Cotton City Airmens' Association; my father was a member.”.
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NM/Airfields_NM_SW.htm
Now, Donald Trump is proposing to go even further, vowing to build a massive, impenetrable wall along the U.S.-Mexico frontier to keep out illegal Mexican migrants. “Building a wall is easy, and it can be done inexpensively,” the Republican presidential candidate said in an interview.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-on-the-us-mexico-border-building-a-wall-is-easy/2015/07/16/9a619668-2b0c-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html
“It’s extremely challenging to put a brick-and-mortar wall along the Southwest border for any number of reasons,” said Richard Stana, who wrote multiple reports on border security for the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office before retiring in 2011.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-on-the-us-mexico-border-building-a-wall-is-easy/2015/07/16/9a619668-2b0c-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html
By having our barrier north of the border we have handed Mexico a combined area of over 1,000 acres of US territory. In places like Lordsburg, 52 agents are responsible for 81 miles of border and the 3,000 square miles of adjacent border area.
http://www.usborderpatrol.com/Border_Patrol746.htm
Columbus is a village in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, about three miles north of the Mexican border. It is considered a place of historical interest, as the scene of the attack in 1916 by Mexican revolutionary leader Francisco Pancho Villa, that caused America to send 10,000 troops there in the Punitive Mexican Expedition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus,_New_Mexico
what year was the mexican border wall built in columbus nm
In the year 1902 the Mexican border wall was built in Columbus, New Mexico. The Mexican border wall was built in 1902 in Columbus, New Mexico.