Posted on 08/26/2019 10:27:57 AM PDT by RightGeek
Construction crews in New Mexico began work on a 46-mile stretch of replacement border walls. The project is reportedly funded with Department of Defense resources diverted by the Trump Administration under a national emergency declaration.
The construction company set forth on a contract to replace a 46-mile section of border fencing with a taller bollard wall. The project is running from Columbus, New Mexico, to Santa Teresa along the border that separates the state from Chihuahua, Mexico, KVIA, ABC7 reported.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently overturned a lower court’s ruling that blocked the use of diverted funds, Breitbart News’ Joel Pollak reported in July. The ruling freed approximately $2.5 billion for construction.
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A video released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows footage from several projects underway in New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Texas.
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Conservation groups say the wall will be detrimental to the migration of animals like bighorn sheep and wolves, KVIA reported.
“It’s astonishing and sad to see Trump’s border wall being built through the most spectacular desert ecosystem on the planet,” Laiken Jordahl, borderlands campaigner with the Center for Biological Diversity, told KVIA.
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There’s lot more at the link.
Democrats and FLeepers are saddened by this news.
And more coming. The only question will be can workers on the border keep up with the material being sent down to them.
I really wish they would focus on AZ and TX. Ca and NM are lost do them last.
I don’t understand what the heck the big deal is about the cost of the wall- supposedly it’s only gonna cost around $25 billion, plus an annual price of I dunno- let’s say $1 billion
Illegal aliens are COSTING our country more than $600 BILLION DOLLARS every single year-
Building the wall, and kicking out illegals already here will save us HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS every single year! - our piddly initial investment of $25 Billion will save us HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS every single year!
BUILD THE DANG WALL ALREADY!!!
Much to the disappointment of Ann Coulter!
Cal fence is nearly complete. Some critical areas of NM walled-off. But I agree, TX is critical!
Somebody correct me if I’m wrong seems to me like there are many many several miles fans being done and perhaps the left won’t notice them but at some point they will all link together and it will be done!
Building a wall against an invading horde of illegal aliens helps to protect the environment.
It is easy to follow the trail of the friends of DemocRATS.
Diverted? If we can’t defend our own border, what’s the point?
NEW wall is what we need, start building where there is no current wall!
Just in case some lib says they are only replacing a fence they are replacing a 5-strand barbed wire fence.
The wall being replaced was routinely breached
see #15
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