Posted on 10/05/2020 1:12:20 PM PDT by BeauBo
350 miles completed, 231 miles under construction, 157 miles under pre-construction (738 Total).
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Nice round numbers. 350 miles complete. Over half a million tons of strong steel, and over three quarters of million cubic yards of of high strength concrete, have now been strategically placed, to fortify our border.
The mouths of naysayers have effectively been shut, and even MSNBC admitted to it's Left Wingnut viewers last week, that the Trump Wall is going up strong and quick.
Wow, significant progress. Love it! Next year is going to be VERY interesting.
The Donald is a Wall Driving Man!
Only 1604 miles to go.
Patriots, please include corrupt, desperate, post-17th Amendment ratification Democrats who unthinkingly promote the murder of unborn Democratic voters in the list of things that the wall protects us from.
Send “Orange Man Bad” federal and state government desperate Democrats home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a “third term” in office imo.
I don’t see any problem with voting Republican ticket for 2020 elections.
Insights welcome.
Yep.
Slow & steady progress...but SO MUCH MORE TO DO.
Can’t get to 1,954 miles until you get to 350 miles, or 750 miles first!
What an accomplishment! We are progressing nicely. I could not be happier, unless of course we hit 500 miles, 600 miles and so on!
When you drill down in the numbers, you can see that some of the main routes are already (just recently) closed, or are nearing it.
The San Diego urban area (14 miles from Otay Mountain to the Ocean) is pretty well shut, with the second run of 30 foot bollards nearing the Ocean soon, and the clearing and grading of the enforcement zone and patrol roads about complete. Most of the lights and cameras are up, and no doubt a good amount of the alarms and sensors are on.
They have already taken off over the mountain to the East, extending the barrier through the steep areas where no barrier existed before, to meet up with the next run of pre-existing bollards further East.
The Chief of the Yuma Sector, Carl E. Landrum, reports today (5 Oct 20) that 94 miles are complete in Yuma Sector (historically the third heaviest traveled corridor for illegal traffic). Only 16 miles remain under construction there.
So the great shift of smuggling routes has just now begun in earnest. As you point out, next year is going to be very interesting - a disruption of smuggling, such as has never been seen before along that border.
There is no need to wall the entire border - much is impassible
If this was a democrat project it would be on TV every night as an amazing accomplishment.
This Border wall is working very well.The evidence was a video of an Illegal alien who some how managed to climb the wall along the San Diego Border. When he got to the top he found it was so high he couldn’t get down.
The Border Patrol had to call the San Diego Fire Dept to assist with getting the alien down. That video made my day.
Now when that guy heads home he’ll tell everybody that he couldn’t get across the border because the wall was too tall.
221 miles of the pre-existing barrier (basically the bollards) has been assessed as operationally effective, and does not need to be replaced. So that brings it to 571 miles done.
In addition to the 350 miles that were built under President Trump’s Program as of today’s report, another 388 miles have been funded (231 of which are currently under construction). So the President has funded a total of 738 miles of new construction.
When you add President Trump’s 738 miles to the 221 of good pre-existing barrier (959 miles), we are in the ball park of the total that the Border Patrol would ideally like to have (1,100), according to the Comprehensive Plan for Full Operational Control of the Southern Border, that they developed in response to Executive Order 13767, issued by President Trump on his fifth day in office.
It is unlikely that there will be much more to go after that, in reality. Possibly a few hundred more miles, but likely spread over several years.
When the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo get done (already funded and on contract), the job will be mostly done.
221 miles of the pre-existing barrier (basically the bollards) has been assessed as operationally effective, and does not need to be replaced.
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can you point me in the right direction to see where the 221 fits in along the border?
thank you for the update.
always great to see the progress
I personally long for the day when the Southern Border of California is completely Walled-off. From the Pacific Ocean to Yuma, Az. But as you say, hot spots like Laredo need the Wall just as much.
Here is some pre-Trump fence info. At start a link to GAO Feb 2017 pdf that gets into detail. 650 miles but is there a map of it. Only 221 deemed usable for Trump standards.
https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/what-do-we-need-to-know-about-the-border-wall/
President Trump is amazing. He does this while the demsheviks have been throwing obstacles at him the whole time. One can only imagine what he will do in his next term when many of them are neutered, and hopefully plenty arrested.
I'm ready for the shooting to commence (between rival cartels) over control and use of the most desirable routes that still remain open.
Now where is my popcorn gobbling meme? Can't find it on this computer.
One thing worries me a little... You don't think those crazy cartel bosses would order their "armies" to attack our guys who are building the wall, do you? They could kill a bunch of guys working on the wall in one location, then a day (or a few days) later attack in another location (locations?) hundreds of miles away, hit and run guerrilla tactics, attempting to delay things as much as possible.
Then, in their minds at least, it could become another Vietnam where we couldn't even shut down the 10-foot-wide Ho Chi Minh footpath with our 500,000 men, much less a two thousand mile wide border. Personally I don't think they would be successful in the long run, but I could see it causing lots of unwelcome chaos.
“can you point me in the right direction to see where the 221 fits in along the border?”
The only authoritative source I am aware of, is the map here: https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/border-wall-system
But even there, I am not sure if their “existing” (in blue) only reflects the operationally effective miles. It seems to be roughly in the ball park (about 1/4 as much as the red).
Will cartels come up with stealth drones to make invisible to radar surveillance. Cartels will probably go high tech to defeat the wall.
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