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The Secret Service will raise the height of the White House security fence by five feet and add a new concrete foundation, in the wake of an uptick of people scaling it — including one this week.

Along with the National Park Service, the Secret Service said it expected to begin building a “taller, stronger” fence to guard the White House grounds by 2018, according to NBC4 Washington.

“We have now a society that tends to want to jump over the fence and onto the 18 acres,” a Secret Service official said.

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