Looks like some new border barrier segments are heading into the contracting process - eleven segments totaling 6.6 miles, in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (around Brownsville). It will basically fill some of the gaps in the existing barrier built there under President Bush.
In other border wall news, the last panel was put in place this week in the Calexico, CA replacement project, where rusty old scrap metal fence (which I personally would be game to try hopping over if I wanted) was replaced with towering thirty foot bollards (which I personally would never attempt).
The twenty miles West of El Paso (Santa Teresa) is also reportedly wrapping up setting their bollard panels into the concrete footings, and is focusing on finishing the road and cleaning up - preparing for inspection and handover.
Here are the new segments around Brownsville, Texas (in yellow), revealed in the latest waiver:
1 posted on
10/13/2018 11:31:07 AM PDT by
BeauBo
To: BeauBo
The Texas Tribune reports:
One of the gaps the U.S. Border Patrol will close is in the Texas Nature Conservancy’s Southmost Preserve... Spokeswoman Vanessa Martin said the conservancy received a letter on Tuesday regarding the project... Martin said the conservancy has been told the project will be complete in the spring of 2019. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman said the agency could not share a timeline “at this point.”
2 posted on
10/13/2018 11:37:59 AM PDT by
BeauBo
To: BeauBo
Oh Noes! Yellow Belly Mudd Dobbers will be in peril!
3 posted on
10/13/2018 11:40:14 AM PDT by
mylife
(The Roar Off The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: BeauBo
and 99% of Tx is Private land.
Keep Out
4 posted on
10/13/2018 11:41:48 AM PDT by
mylife
(The Roar Off The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: BeauBo
They should use the same rules the Chinese used building the Great Wall. Shut up and stack those bricks.
5 posted on
10/13/2018 11:50:43 AM PDT by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: BeauBo
Yeah, like all the endangered species that just happen to live along the path.
To: BeauBo
was replaced with towering thirty foot bollards (which I personally would never attempt).Speaking of which, does anyone have a link to the video of the Mexican who DID jump down a new 30 foot tall section?
Broke both legs.
10 posted on
10/13/2018 12:31:51 PM PDT by
Balding_Eagle
( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
To: BeauBo
...but, we are trying to keep out a biological infestation that threatens the native mammals.
11 posted on
10/13/2018 12:40:12 PM PDT by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
To: BeauBo
Center for Biological DiversityWouldn't a wall simply add to that diversity?
16 posted on
10/13/2018 4:44:26 PM PDT by
Libloather
(Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
To: BeauBo
And nothing will go extinct or have to struggle for survival....will help prove the current laws are way overboard.
18 posted on
10/14/2018 2:36:43 AM PDT by
trebb
(So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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