Posted on 08/03/2020 9:03:47 AM PDT by BeauBo
No more walking from Tijuana to San Diego in the same day. No where outside of town where you can be dropped off and walk to a road on the other side in just a few miles, without having to conquer the barrier, and escape the resulting chase.
San Diego's flanks will be closed in the coming months. The whole urban area will be comprehensively protected.
“If we have four more years, we may actually solve this problem.”
True.
At this rate, just with the money already on hand, we are looking at roughly finishing the physical security work needed, around the end of next year (2021).
After that, there will be some “whack-a-mole” of closing new routes that smugglers shift to, but they will be increasingly marginal and remote.
San Diego 4 connects to Otay Mesa?
Yes. It picks up the end of the San Diego barrier, as it heads up Otay Mountain, East of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry (East San Diego).
It will fill the gap between the new San Diego Barrier, and the next run of bollards, further inland - forming a continuous barrier, continuous patrol road connectivity, and allow a continuous alarm/sensor tripwire for detection - no gap will remain within walking distance of Tijuana.
This will be all new miles, which I don't think the Left wingnuts have yet included into their mantra of "only three new miles of fence have been built" (around Fronton, Texas).
End of the old San Diego Barrier (an easy stroll from a Tijuana neighborhood):
End of the new San Diego Barrier, where San Diego 4 Project picks up:
I wish the RINO wing of the party had provided more support early on. Being one year further ahead for this election would have been wonderful. Still, I’ll take what we can get.
“I wish the RINO wing of the party had provided more support early on.”
Actually, when the Republicans had both House and Senate, (then) Speaker Ryan added a wedge into the 10 year baseline budget for barrier building - about $1.4 billion per year, out to FY 2027.
That is the source of all of the appropriated money that has come from Congress for the Trump Wall Program so far, except for $400 million in the first year (2017). It is kind of on auto-pilot in the baseline budget.
Although that approach would have slow-rolled President Trump from definitively fixing the border during his term, it has the practical result of strongly funding a few years worth of “whack-a-mole” reactive patching of the barrier, after President Trump’s lump sum big push, under his Emergency Declaration.
That $1.4 billion/year (gradually inflating to $1.6B), can fund 60-70 miles of top of the line Wall System per year. That is a very credible program, especially once the cities and easiest terrain are already strongly walled off.
275 miles completed as of today, August 10. 300 easy by Labor Day unless Demwits throw up another legal hurdle.
“275 miles completed as of today”
Thanks Don O, I just got it posted.
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