how long is the border?
Somewhere between 3 and 2000 miles give or take.
It’s infinite where it includes the Rio Grande shoreline.
“This results from the fractal-like properties of coastlines, i.e., the fact that a coastline typically has a fractal dimension (which in fact makes the notion of length inapplicable).”
“how long is the border?”
About 1,954 miles. In total (”new” and “replacement”), the President’s program targets around 1,100 miles of that for barrier construction.
Contracting is done segment by segment.
Lots of segments are now being awarded, as compared to early in the Trump Presidency. Only 40 miles were funded by Congress in 2017 (just now finishing up). 80 miles were funded in 2018 (construction just now beginning or recently underway). 55 miles were funded by Congress in 2019 (this is the first award from those funds).
But President Trump’s emergency declaration and re-programming of other funds, is enough for a few hundred more miles, which should be dropping on contracts throughout this year, and starting work about three months later.
We started the year building about a half mile per week, and are on track to finish the year building about a half mile per day.