Posted on 09/22/2018 1:39:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The United States was to begin construction in Texas on Saturday of part of President Donald Trump's border wall designed to curb illegal immigration, which he calls a security threat.
Running along four miles (six kilometers) of the 2,000-mile border with Mexico, the new section will replace existing fencing along the boundary between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, US Customs and Border Protection said in a statement.
"This new wall will be far more durable and far more effective in deterring would-be illegal entrants," Aaron Hull, Chief Patrol Agent in the El Paso sector, said in the statement.
It said the existing fencing will be replaced by an 18-foot (5.4 meter) steel post barrier which allows Border Patrol agents to see through to the other side....
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Gun emplacements every 200-300 yds with auto aim and fire mini Guns ( heat, radar, movement etc)
Didn’t the legislation that President Trump signed, prohibit use of defense department funds for the border ?
“Four miles out of 2000, huh?”
Imagine if Hillary had won.
Fill the Rio grande with alligators!
This is replacement wall, not new wall.
BUILD THE WALL!
the longest journey starts with the first 4 miles. Waiting for a hawaiin judge to halt construction
Hi.
You may be correct.
He can just it anyway.
It’s always better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
5.56mm
The part you can see through is called a “Bollard Wall”. Agents said they prefer to see through the wall. It is 30 feet high, approximately 15 feet deep.
Trump isn’t waffling on The Wall.
Trump remains passionately committed to The Wall.
Trump is uncertain about how to get Congress to fund The Wall.
mexico money transfers from the us. go fund me account try anything
I agree, and Trump needs a theme for the next 6.25 years: Go Around Congress.
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I see you’re the architect let’s geter done
lone mexican at border wall in san diego disrupting things
graphic language
We should have a memorial of all the people killed or lives destroyed by the illegals, much like the Vietnam Wall.
Some kind of constant reminder.
“Four miles out of 2,000?”
This is one MORE segment under construction. 28 miles are currently being built in San Diego (14 miles of double barrier), 2.25 miles in Calexico, and 20 miles extending West from El Paso. Most importantly, 33 miles in the Rio Grande Valley has been funded, and is in the contracting process. Those 33 miles will transform the area that now experiences the highest rate of illegal crossing.
When this top of the line “Trump stlyle” gets built, it also includes patrol road, lights, cameras and sensors; that further improve effectiveness.
It’s AMERICA’s border wall, not Trump’s.
I’ve just got to wonder why most of the people running our Government seem so dead set against doing something that the majority of the population obviously wants.
Do the RATS actually WANT the country over-run with drugs and crime? Or do they only see potential voters and more power and have tunnel vision? And what, except corruption, could POSSIBLY be stopping the Republicans from jumping on board what is probably the issue, above all, that got Trump elected? Do we really need a new government before we can finally have secure borders?
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