Posted on 11/10/2020 7:00:11 PM PST by BeauBo
Border wall construction continued at full tilt Tuesday (10 Nov) in South Texas...
Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees billions of dollars worth of government border wall contracts along the Southwest, confirmed to Border Report in an emailed statement that construction of the border wall infrastructure system will continue on projects that are already funded.
“CBP continues with the construction of new border wall system with funding that has been received through Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. The majority of contracts have been awarded and construction is well under way for the approximately 738 miles funded to date...
On Tuesday, construction crews in hard hats, and reflective neon yellow vests operated back hoes and manually worked on border wall segments from McAllen to south of San Juan, Texas, at at least three sites visited by Border Report.
Crews are also building near 23rd Street in south McAllen... (and) At another construction site on Tuesday near Doffin Canal Road, a couple of miles east of the Eli Jackson Historical Cemetery, south of the town of Pharr, Texas...
The border wall in this part of Hidalgo County follows the dirt levee constructed in the 1940s by the International Boundary and Water Commission for flood control of the Rio Grande. Some of the existing border wall was built after 2007 under the Secure Fence Act during the Obama administration. The Trump administration has secured funding to fill in the gaps in between border wall, and to add 30-foot-tall flood lighting, an all-weather road, underground sensors and infrared cameras as part of the infrastructure system.
(Excerpt) Read more at borderreport.com ...
Massive barrier system is now going up in the Rio Grande Valley Sector - the busiest area for illegal traffic along the whole Southern Border. More than 100 miles were funded and contracted there - where no barrier of any sort existed before. And this the top of the line system - Super Barrier.
23rd Street (McAllen) segment, from the North side (on top of the levee):
From the South side, including the imposing concrete levee wall:
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Forging is a robust method of processing material.
Just sayin’.
the photo makes me wonder if i can toss a nylon rope tethered alloy aluminum grappling hook 45’ high above me vertically. then jog 10 or 20 miles through the desert to escape the BP. hmmm... i think i would probably get caught if i tried, lol...
Double shifts are the norm, for the roughly fifty crews now building new Trump-style Super Wall System along our Southern Border. Many crews routinely work beyond the available daylight hours:
Biden, God forbid if he does get in , will put an immediate stop to the building
Great picture. Offers a good perspective of the massive size of the wall
“wonder if i can toss a nylon rope tethered alloy aluminum grappling hook 45’ high above me vertically.”
Of course, it is possible (a hook could also be launched with a crossbow, or other device). Ladders could also be erected.
Testers found it difficult to manually place grappling hooks onto the 30 foot barriers (the height of a fourth floor window ledge) - and they were Military Special Operators. So most people are not fit enough for such an approach.
But for those who are fit enough, they must first cross a cleared and alarmed 150 wide enforcement zone, under constant camera surveillance, monitored by unblinking artificial intelligence. Border Patrol will have high speed, all weather road to respond on both sides of the barrier, and new small Unmanned Aerial Systems (drones) have already recently been deployed in the area, to continue to track any infiltrators, until intercept.
It is surprisingly easy to not lose track of people running through, or hiding amongst the vegetation, from the overhead vantage point, augmented with night and heat sensing capabilities.
Thanks, very good news, the area and I like the term “Super Barrier”.
Once all the billion dollar heavy earth moving, concrete pouring and steel erection is complete (I know, I said erection...), the roads and lighting are completed, and all the technological instrumentation is activated; it is a relatively quick, cheap and effective upgrade to add a few rolls of concertina on top, which dramatically impedes rope and ladder attacks.
“Biden, God forbid if he does get in , will put an immediate stop to the building”
The article talks about that quite a bit. Contracts can simply be terminated for the Convenience of the Government, at some negotiated payment (I’d guess 10% of the unfinished work).
It is certainly likely in many cases, but not necessarily all.
In the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo Sectors, the money for construction came from direct (Democrat) Congressional appropriations, designated for these specific miles of barrier - not diverted from the Military budget.
The local (overwhelmingly Democrat) areas will benefit greatly from this barrier as a temporary stimulus (pork barrel project), as an otherwise affordable upgrade of their earthen levees to full FEMA Hurricane rating, and from the improved long term economic development (and improved tax revenues) that follows from the improved security, everywhere that good barrier goes in.
So while it is likely that a (I spit when I say it) Biden Admin would immediately stop new contract awards and land acquisition efforts, they might well treat different contracts already underway, differently.
Those which had not yet started work would likely be the easiest to halt. Those with diverted Military funding however, might be prioritized for termination - or be a casualty of Biden simply not extending the declared emergency. But if they do distinguish among the many efforts (rather than just issuing a blanket stop work order), than the efforts in the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo, with direct appropriations and Democrat constituencies, might be among the most likely to complete.
When Obama/Biden took office in 2009, they allowed Bush-era Border Wall Projects that were already funded and contracted to run through completion. Admittedly, the Dem Party is much more radical today however.
“Biden, God forbid if he does get in , will put an immediate stop to the building.”
Isn’t it “interesting” that RGB passed just when she did-with just enough time to confirm ACB to the SCOTUS right before this whole election debacle ends up in the Supreme Court? We may look back on these events in the coming months and realize how Providential things turned out.
“Isn’t it “interesting” that RBG passed just when she did... how Providential”
Eerily from a Jewish perspective, she died right on Rosh Hashanah - the one day in the the year, when God is said to “close the Book of Life” on the truly evil (the righteous are written in for the coming year, and all the middling folks get ten days to reflect and recommit to doing better).
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Looks like that Project will be in decent functional shape before Inauguration Day.
“Eerily from a Jewish perspective, she died right on Rosh Hashanah - the one day in the the year, when God is said to “close the Book of Life” on the truly evil (the righteous are written in for the coming year, and all the middling folks get ten days to reflect and recommit to doing better).
The Lord works in mysterious ways.”
Wow, oh wow......! That is amazing. Thank you for that insight.
nighttime border wall construction? i sense an increase in urgency (although i welcome the results of that increase).
give the tijuana river the same treatment
Yes he will. Biden will stop it in a heartbeat.
Probably a little too hot to work in the daytime?
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