Posted on 08/02/2019 2:42:42 PM PDT by BeauBo
Starr County provides a glimpse of what a new era of wall-building will mean... The barrier planned for Starr County is part of the longest stretch of new border wall so far constructed under Trump — a total of 95 miles in the Rio Grande Valley...
Under current plans, Starr County will be completely walled off from Mexico.
Federal maps show the county's meandering river border will be entirely blocked off by 52 miles of steel bollard wall — 18 to 30 feet tall. Every mile will include tall floodlights, hi-tech cameras and a 150-foot-wide patrol road.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
The plan is to use this year's money to contract top of the line Wall System for the great bulk of the Rio Grande Valley. That is going to transform what is now the busiest sector of the border for illegal immigration.
For those who care about what the media says, these will be essentially all "new" miles, where there was no barrier built before.
Just pay for it! Or so says ‘aoc’. (An Obstinate Critter)
Then again I’m thinkin’ it should be on the south side of the river anyway. But that might just be me.
Dense vegetation makes policing difficult. There is over a hundred miles of this.
The border barrier, much of it built on top of flood control levees, will provide a clear open area with roads, lights, cameras and alarm sensors. The new stuff will include tall bollards on top.
I believe I would be putting camera(s) on that gate because mrzz Alvarez strikes me as being typical of the folks in Starr County, corruption everywhere.
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Can we defund NPR and use the funds to help pay for the wall?
LOVE IT!
“I believe I would be putting camera(s) on that gate”
That is common practice, and an easy retrofit later (you could even just hide a cheap game camera to collect evidence).
Technology programs are also rolling out more strongly this year along the border, just as barrier is now shifting up into full scale deployment. After the border cities, the Rio Grande Valley is likely to be the most closely monitored stretch of the border. I would expect the Integrated Fixed Towers Program to cover this sector well, and to monitor gate opening events systematically.
They have been using automated gates with access codes since the Bush era Secure Fence Act (2007-9) building program, further East around Brownsville.
Every user gets their own code, so they can tell who it was, if one is misused or compromised.
Sooo, put the wall on the other side of her property.
The corrupt Mexican politicians that hold office in South Texas are fighting for their right to keep their income from the drug cartels for safe passage through these squalid border cities. They should be ignored by our government.
I dislike the headline - just a cheap shoot at Trump - no surprise of the libtards at NPR. It is not “Trump’s border wall”
It is OUR border wall. Americans’ border wall.
I read the article. Tough titty for her.
Never agreed with Eminent Domain...for commerce purposes as in the Kelo decision.
But this is different. And the fact she doesn’t like it and NPR wants to do a story about it makes me support the government even more.
I agree with the other poster...take money from NPR and use it to reimburse people in America negatively impacted by the construction.
Worked in Val Verde county (Del Rio, TX) for years.
The corrupt Mexican politicians that hold office in South Texas are fighting for their right to keep their income from the drug cartels for safe passage through these squalid border cities. They should be ignored by our government.
“The corrupt Mexican politicians that hold office in South Texas are fighting for their right to keep their income from the drug cartels for safe passage through these squalid border cities.”
Congressman Henry Cuellar (D, Los Zetas) ha been the most successful. He has gotten miles of gaps in the new wall written into law (Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge, Butterfly Center, La Lomita Chapel), and a booby trap requirement to consult with local governments in five other places.
“Tough titty for her.”
I extracted the facts from the article, and left behind the manipulative liberal attempts to pull on pull on heart strings. Makes for a much quicker read.
At least NPR had their facts right about the extent and the nature of the wall they are preparing to build there. They are going to be building like gangbusters during the election year, and it looks like a seriously effective amount of border wall is going to be completed, under construction or locked on contract by the end of President Trumps first term.
As for their “victim”, she will be much safer for a long time to come, after the wall is in place. That is one of the lessons learned from past barrier building programs - local crime rates drop and property values go up once the barriers are built.
Getting it done
Fisher Border Wall El Paso, TX Extended Cut Version - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaihuiT24Vg
I am confident that Sheriff J.R. Koog had a deal with the cartel.
“The corrupt Mexican politicians that hold office in South Texas are fighting for their right to keep their income from the drug cartels for safe passage through these squalid border cities.”
Congressman Henry Cuellar (D, Los Zetas) ha been the most successful. He has gotten miles of gaps in the new wall written into law (Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge, Butterfly Center, La Lomita Chapel), and a booby trap requirement to consult with local governments in five other places.
“For those who care about what the media says, these will be essentially all “new” miles, where there was no barrier built before.”
Great news.
I hope Trump can find new money in the budget just approved to keep adding miles and miles of tall, beautiful, bollard fencing.
Expected a hard left bias from NPR...was not disappointed.
“I hope Trump can find new money in the budget just approved to keep adding miles and miles”
They agreed on an overarching framework (totals) for the next two years’ budgets, but each year requires about a dozen individual spending bills to pass (DoD, HHS, DHS, etc.). That is where the fights will be. The Dems will reneg on their promises. They should start arguing in September, and kick the DHS bill till last, and likely more drama will ensue.
The President will have to be creative to get a good amount of funding next year. There is about $1.5 billion per year for the wall built into the current 10 year baseline budget. The Administration will request it to be raised (to $8.7B), the Dems will seek to zero it out, and kill or sabotage the emergency funding.
As long as the President gets to spend the money he identified in this year’s emergency declaration though, we will get a significantly effective load of border wall system (over 400 miles of the good stuff, where it is most needed), and it will keep the construction crews working into 2021.
If he comes up with another $6B or $8B like he did this year, he could get close to finishing the 1,100 miles identified in the plan (although construction would take into 2022).
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