This 20 mile segment running West from El Paso, is well ahead of schedule - more than half done, in just under a third of their schedule (120 of their 390 days). This 120 day period included the bulk of the monsoon season, which is the main seasonal risk to the schedule.
In the easy, flat and open terrain there, that team has been running about a mile every 11 days.
The big money of this last year's wall funding will go to the Rio Grande Valley in Southern Texas. They are still in the contracting process, and likely won't award task orders until after Christmas. I believe the money is good for five years, so that should not be a problem.
Here you can see the old style Normandy barriers (vehicle barrier), that are being replaced by bollards with anti-climb plate (pedestrian barrier).
From last week...
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