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This proposal seems to effectively complete the wall in the Rio Grande Valley - with FY19 funds (completing construction would probably extend into 2021). It would create a basically continuous barrier system from East of Brownsville, all the way to Falcon Lake, except for areas Congress has specifically exempted, like the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge (and possibly some of the small cities for which Congress requires consultation). In most of those areas, levee wall provides some barrier, but also makes an excellent clear and continuous tripwire zone for technology like cameras/sensors/alarms to be maximally effective - unlikely that people will be able to cross undetected.

It will fundamentally transform the busiest sector of the border. I estimate that some minority of this effort requires the use of some of the emergency funding, but they don't specify how much.

1 posted on 07/22/2019 2:07:33 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

Key words in the title: “wall off”

Start this week. This has waited FOREVER.


2 posted on 07/22/2019 2:16:53 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: BeauBo

Thumbs up!


3 posted on 07/22/2019 2:17:36 AM PDT by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: BeauBo

Maps can be seen by opening the .pdf linked at the CBP announcement.

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These will basically all be “new” miles of barrier, rather than replacement.


4 posted on 07/22/2019 2:20:40 AM PDT by BeauBo
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.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking your input concerning the construction of a levee/border wall system

Seeking input?!

Quit stalling and screwing around. What is this? An ploy to stifle criticism that the wall is not really being built? Just do it. Come back to us when you get it done.

5 posted on 07/22/2019 2:29:08 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: BeauBo

My input, why wasn’t this done years ago? Get it done now!


7 posted on 07/22/2019 2:47:00 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: BeauBo

I support this having been done last year.


10 posted on 07/22/2019 3:37:22 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: BeauBo

It walls off a large part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Reserve so I assume those areas of the NWR just go back to being unmanaged territory?


11 posted on 07/22/2019 3:49:41 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: BeauBo
seeking your input

To paraphrase an America Hating Goat humping, Allah FUBAR screaming Sand Uyghur CongressCritter: Build that MotherF***er!

14 posted on 07/22/2019 4:14:39 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: BeauBo

So, get it built and quit stalling.


18 posted on 07/22/2019 6:35:08 AM PDT by bgill
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