Posted on 07/21/2019 6:08:29 AM PDT by george76
The Trump administration has not installed a single mile of new wall in a previously fenceless part of the U.S.-Mexico border in the 30 months since President Trump assumed office, despite his campaign promise to construct a “big beautiful wall.”
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all the fencing completed since Trump took office is "in place of dilapidated designs" because the existing fence was in need of replacement.
The agency said that it had built 51 miles of steel bollard fence with funding that was set aside during fiscal 2017 and 2018. But while the funding was meant both to replace outdated walls and to place barriers where there previously had been none, the government has only completed the replacement projects. The projects to secure areas with no fence are still in the works.
The 50 miles of completed replacement barrier is a 10-mile gain since early April. In Trump’s two and a half years in office, his administration has installed an average 1.7 miles of barrier per month, and none of it in areas that did not previously have some sort of barrier. A total 205 miles of new and replacement barrier has been funded in the two and a half years since Trump took office.
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Army Corps of Engineers moved faster on replacement projects than the new ones because the approval process for environmental and zoning permits was far less extensive than areas of the border with no barrier.
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Roughly 700 miles of the 2,000-mile border has some sort of barrier as a result of the Secure Fence Act
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300 miles of barrier is Normandy style, or a handful of steel beams fastened together to prevent vehicular traffic from getting by. However, the four-foot-tall fence does not prevent people from crossing.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Bich need a salad.
Emissaries of certain religious charities like to disseminate that propaganda while calling for open borders from the other sides of their faces.
Thank you for that link, Vaquero. I am also ticked off at supposed Trump supporters who should know better but continue to bash our President about the Wall.
Because Democrats .
Here is some video from there on July 5th, with bollards alreasy standing, on the East side of McAllen in Hidalgo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJMCWo1Etbo ).
This is new wall, where no barrier existed before. It is being built as a massive FEMA hurricane rated flood levee for the base, with 18 foot bollards on top, high speed, all weather patrol road, and loaded with technology (cameras, sensors, alarms). These segments are closing gaps (often miles wide) between Bush-era segments, to form longer continuous runs.
Here you can see (in red) where some of the 33 (new) miles of 2018 funding, and 55 more (new) miles of FY 2019 funding were planned to go (all new miles, top of the line system). Some of those miles are off of this map, but it gives a good idea of how the wall is building out in segments, joining previous segments together. Congress added some restrictions in 2019, that will move about 8 of those miles around (e.g. National Butterfly Center will be left open, some place else will likely move up the priority list).
Where is the wall?
Feast your eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbZxNYOD-4
Here is another segment going up in Tecate, CA, where you can see some of the new bollards next some old landing mat - what a difference “replacemt miles make. What you can’t see in this short (39 sec) video, is the major technology upgrade going in with the bollards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYJyFcB2rYw
Construction is also now underway in Calexico, CA, Yuma, AZ, and in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.. Big awards in New Mexico and Arizona are waiting to start work.
CBP has recently asked for public comments (by 26 Aug) on their plan for 95 miles in the Rio Grande Valley, this Fiscal Year (which ends on 30 September). These 95 miles would get us close to completing a continuous barrier for the whole Rio Grande Valley - big news.
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Maybe this is why the story was pushed out into the press now, that there are no “new” miles of border wall - almost 100 “new” miles in the Rio Grande Valley are getting ready to drop this fiscal year.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3765773/posts?page=7
Getting the Rio Grande Valley done is the biggest single battle of securing the border. Looks like the Left is about to lose it, so they are blowing smoke to cover their retreat.
Great stuff BB. Physical infrastructure is easy to visualize. How is the Democrat voting rot distributed and entrenched. Voting fraud epicenter. JFK won his election here and in Cook County.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia_(United_States)
That link worked for me initially. Then it did not.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mjs/12333712.0002.010?view=text;rgn=main
“Colonia” is like sayin slum or ghetto, in Spanish.
The article you linked discusses their vulnerability to flooding, but one of the major benefits of the new border wall, is that in the parts of the Valley vulnerable to flooding (around McAllen, and East to the Gulf), The barrier is built as an upgrade to the levees - to FEMA hurricane specs. It is a huge infrastructure boost for the area, that otherwise might wait decades for funding.
Demographically, that area is overwhelmingly packed with Spanish speakers, because of immigration. Nearby Laredo is the least diverse city in the United States - over 95% Hispanic.
This is NOT Trump.
No wall will make a difference as long as there is a big door in it that remains open to any that want to come through it.
Right, no doubt the President is thoroughly familiar with construction planning, schedules & critical paths, meaning he knows that huge amounts of lead time can be consumed up front, in preparations, permits, etc., when it appears that nothing is really happening.
Then, if all goes well up front, suddenly there's a flurry of activity and actual construction begins to happen very quickly.
That's when we would expect to see routine, periodic progress reports.
My guess is we'll see a lot more next year... ;-)
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but some people are too stupid to see what's happening, and therefore unfit to vote.
You’re really disrupting the thread, bringing facts to the table.
This is the same with deporting 30-60 million illegals. Had he started on Day One it would have required 20,000 to 41,000 deportees every day over four years. Now, it would take 55,000 to 110,000 deportees every day to accomplish in his first four years (and as Lyn' Ted offers, he's only 50/50 on winning second term). Yet, here we are with everyone freaking out over his "millions starting next week" that turns into 2,000, and then, as we now see, none. All talk. And I say this as a supporter. I am disappointed and I do not see this getting better or resolving itself in the next 1-1/2 years or even another 4 years when he wins reelection despite Lyn' Ted's forecast.
This is the same with deporting 30-60 million illegals. Had he started on Day One it would have required 20,000 to 41,000 deportees every day over four years. Now, it would take 55,000 to 110,000 deportees every day to accomplish in his first four years (and as Lyn' Ted offers, he's only 50/50 on winning second term). Yet, here we are with everyone freaking out over his "millions starting next week" that turns into 2,000, and then, as we now see, none. All talk. And I say this as a supporter. I am disappointed and I do not see this getting better or resolving itself in the next 1-1/2 years or even another 4 years when he wins reelection despite Lyn' Ted's forecast.
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