The politics will work against him. Seems like all contracts are going to populated areas with 30 ft walls with slow construction and high costs.
NM border west of Sunland/Santa Teresa is flat and ranchland. Let Fisher scream through New Mexico and flat eastern part of AZ until the mountains.
Trump is fighting to get crumbs. Dollars may be exhausted well before election with only high cost wall.
“NM border west of Sunland/Santa Teresa is flat and ranchland.”
20 miles from Mount Christo Rey, through Sunland and the Santa Teresa Port of Entry; were one of the first segments completed under the Trump Administration.
Among the first Billion dollars re-programmed from the Military budget this year (Drug control program funds, not the more controversial Military Construction funds), is 46 more miles extending that effective barrier West, past the Columbus Port of Entry.
Those segments have been delayed with some legal issues, but they seem likely to start work in the next few months.
If (more like when) the President gets to spend the full $8.1 billion he identified under his emergency declaration, will will be sincerely off to the races building barrier. That is four times what he got in 2017 and 2018 combined.
What populated areas? The sections to be built/currently being built in TX,NM,AZ are not going through populated areas by any stretch.