The Trump administration is throwing in high-tech gadgets too, with cameras and sensors to catch anyone brave enough to try their luck as illegal crossings continue to plummet The US is to paint the entire southern border wall with Mexico black (Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The 700-mile US-Mexico border wall will be slathered in black paint in order to make it too hot for migrants to climb over. ‌

The bizarre order, straight from the President himself , aims to fry would-be migrants’ hands in the blazing desert sun. Speaking at a press conference in Santa Teresa, New Mexico , Donald Trump's Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stood in front of the towering steel barrier and explained Trump’s brainwave. ‌

“It’s tall, almost impossible to climb, and goes deep i

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