Posted on 02/12/2019 11:53:00 PM PST by Based Newsman
President Trump said Monday at a campaign rally in El Paso that, “We’ve actually started a big, big portion of the wall today at a very important location, and it’s going to go up pretty quickly over the next nine months.”
He similarly said Tuesday at the White House, “We just started a big, big section of wall on the Rio Grande.”
I checked in with agents at the Rio Grande Valley border sector to see if they knew what new “wall” Trump was talking about. They sent me information on construction for new border barrier announced last year.
The project funds six miles-worth of concrete and steel barrier of the sort that agents told me in January is immensely successful in deterring illegal border crossings.
The wall will be supplemented by “detection technology, lighting, video surveillance, and an all-weather patrol road parallel” to the barrier, according to a release sent out by the CBP in November.
And the $145 million for it didn’t come from some long-ago-passed funding bill passed under former President Barack Obama. It was included in U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s budget for fiscal year 2018.
(Trump Video at the Link)
Again, how ironic.
Nothing like the Pop-a-top Friday drive home...
Hell Yeah!
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