Posted on 10/01/2019 9:12:01 AM PDT by BeauBo
The Trump administration has awarded three new contracts to build about 65 miles of new (NEW) border wall across the Rio Grande Valley—the busiest sector for Border Patrol agents.
According to a press release from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP), the new border wall sections will be built across Starr, Hidalgo and Cameron Counties in Texas.
"The border wall system will include an 18-30 foot tall steel bollard wall, all-weather roads, lighting, enforcement cameras, and other related technology to create a complete enforcement zone," the press release states.
Construction of the new border wall sections is expected to begin in early 2020, according to CBP, "pending availability of real estate."
Importantly, it will also be taking place in locations where no barriers currently exist, unlike the border wall sections that are currently being built to replace and fortify existing structures...
According to the agency, the Rio Grande Valley Sector is the nation's busiest, accounting for approximately 40 percent of apprehensions at the border.
"These projects will improve the RGV Sector's ability to impede and deny illegal border crossings and the drug and human smuggling activities of transnational criminal organizations," CBP said.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
We are running about two miles per week, and ramping up to around a mile per day over the next few months, with what is already on contract.
Still waiting for the 11 big projects using the Military Construction money ($3.6 billion more) to be awarded (which will probably require the Supreme Court to rule again). Those contract awards should drop over the next few months.
The three awards announced Sunday, are going to effectively transform the Rio Grande Valley Sector - the biggest open door of them all. The contracts already awarded are going to substantially close that gaping opening, but Congress (Henry Cuellar) has purposely left five small (1-2 mile) gaps, that could be flooded by caravans, if future policy allows it. If the Administration wants to police the Rio Grande Valley though, this much great Wall System will make it possible.
Along with the other five contracts recently awarded there, about a hundred miles will be built. Most of the Valley will then have a continuous top of the line barrier. With eight concurrent contracts, there should be at least eight crews working concurrently, so we should be getting at least two miles per week just in the RGV Sector next year.
I notice that the Contracting Officer was working on Sunday - maybe just because of the end of the Fiscal Year.
Getting built in spite of Democrat and Never Trumper opposition.
Has ann cu_tler had any smarmy, smart ass comments?
Has she been giving lewinskys to bill mahr?
I once owned several of her books {trashed them} but since she has bad mouthed Trump over the wall, I have no use for her.
Beto is crying...
If the Federal Government still owns the land where the gaps are, they could use DoD money to test various automated sentry weapons there.
So is Coulter...
CNN Breaking.......”Trump steps up Voter Suppression efforts in south west”. /s
Excellent!
*APPLAUSE*
In, Around, Under or Through!
Mr. President is gettin’ ‘er DONE! MAGA! KAG! :)
I will repeat something I've said many times before in case some readers missed it. The reason we don't need a wall along the entire border is because some areas are impassable. The illegals and their coyote smugglers use the nearest and quickest routes to meld into American towns and cities.
Example: As a Minuteman volunteer I made the drive from San Diego to Tombstone. Although there were holes in eastern California (Calexico) and around Yuma, AZ, (both being fixed) after that there is about 100 miles of desert far from the border that would take an Army logistical division? to cross. It runs from approximately Yuma to Casa Grande just south of Phoenix.
Look on a map and see the how far Hwy 8 is from the border in that stretch of desolate land. No trees, no water, only shrubs and cactus. There is one secondary road coming from Mexico and just one small town (Gila Bend), which are both covered by Border Patrol.
Wondering if the next Dem President will tear it all down?
At that pace it will take approximately 18.25 years to complete.
aka uniparty/deep state opposition
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