[BeauBo]

7 miles completed last week - a mile a day.

We will likely crack 200 miles completed, this week. We just completed the 100th mile in January of this year, so the rate has greatly sped up, and is on track to speed up more, as these new contract awards start breaking ground.

Last week we heard about the biggest border wall contract award yet - $1.28 billion to Fisher, for 42 rugged and remote miles in Arizona (heading East from the border of the Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation).

The contract was awarded on 6 May, but not listed on the contracts web page of DoD, or the announced on the Newsroom page of CBP. Reportedly, this new policy (not reporting awards the next day) is driven by a new interpretation, that task orders awarded under a standing contract are not new contracts themselves, and don't require public notice.

The Army Coprs of Engineers has at least three MATOC-style (multiple task orders from among a pre-approved pool of Contractors) for building border wall - each with a $5 billion cap.

So for all we know, billions more may have been awarded, without notice. I guess that provides some cover from obstructionists, so even though I like to know, I can appreciate the greater good of successful execution. We are heading into a Summer of Border Wall construction, beyond anything we have seen before.

[Vendome]

Good enough for me

Promise kept

[EnglishOnly]

Keep up the Good Work!

[Kahuna]

To have a completed wall in a year or two will have a fabulous impact on our Nations economy. We will be hurting for a few months but by controlling illegal immigration our job picture will again lead the world and the drain on the border States budgets quickly become a thing of the past.

[donozark]

Was not expecting an update on Memorial Day. This is indeed pleasant news.

[SuperLuminal]

The Ann Coulter Memorial proceeds nicely...

All that will remain, once construction is completed, is the tomb-chamber (for her mummified remains) to be built and occupied under the remotest section of the wall...

[thinden]

while the country has been locked down, the wall has been going up!

more great news beaubo!

thanx for the update

[9YearLurker]

Remote and rugged it may be, but that’s still almost $6K per foot of fence.

[JayGalt]

It makes me very happy that Fisher’s hard work with “We build the Wall” has paid off. The CEO has really stepped up to the plate.
POTUS is blazing ahead full steam to get this wall done. I think he is making an opportunity out of the media’s preoccupation & distraction with COVID-19 to set add’l segments & contracts in motion.

[FrdmLvr]

Do you know the total number of miles we originally needed to build, or how many miles are left to cover outside of these three phases, which totals 731 miles? Thank you.

This is an impressive job.

[SisterK]

Good news. That part of AZ-Mex border is extremely dangerous.
Much drug running.
Used to camp there as a kid. Not now. No way.

[sheehan]

Immigration moratorium
Mass deportations
Tax all remittances

If Sleepy Joe wins... open borders.

[preacher]

L8r

[SharpRightTurn]

Great report.

BTTT.

[Tawiskaro]

[gogeo]

Excellent.