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Trump border wall going up in Texas
MSN News ^ | September 22, 2018 | Agence France Presse

Posted on 09/22/2018 1:39:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The United States was to begin construction in Texas on Saturday of part of President Donald Trump's border wall designed to curb illegal immigration, which he calls a security threat.

Running along four miles (six kilometers) of the 2,000-mile border with Mexico, the new section will replace existing fencing along the boundary between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, US Customs and Border Protection said in a statement.

"This new wall will be far more durable and far more effective in deterring would-be illegal entrants," Aaron Hull, Chief Patrol Agent in the El Paso sector, said in the statement.

It said the existing fencing will be replaced by an 18-foot (5.4 meter) steel post barrier which allows Border Patrol agents to see through to the other side....

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: borders; texas; trump; wall
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To: Reno89519

Gun emplacements every 200-300 yds with auto aim and fire mini Guns ( heat, radar, movement etc)


21 posted on 09/22/2018 2:43:30 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: M Kehoe

Didn’t the legislation that President Trump signed, prohibit use of defense department funds for the border ?


22 posted on 09/22/2018 2:58:30 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: Pravious

“Four miles out of 2000, huh?”

Imagine if Hillary had won.


23 posted on 09/22/2018 3:05:47 PM PDT by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fill the Rio grande with alligators!


24 posted on 09/22/2018 3:23:05 PM PDT by youngidiot (Trumped up charges!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Construction has started in NM as well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S024otpADnQ


25 posted on 09/22/2018 3:33:42 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is replacement wall, not new wall.

BUILD THE WALL!


26 posted on 09/22/2018 3:34:55 PM PDT by karnage
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To: Lean-Right
Thank you for the link to the wall getting built. Phew. Faster and higher.
https://youtu.be/KtjxxRnlTDA
27 posted on 09/22/2018 3:48:06 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: Pravious

the longest journey starts with the first 4 miles. Waiting for a hawaiin judge to halt construction


28 posted on 09/22/2018 3:56:15 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Reno89519

Hi.

You may be correct.
He can just it anyway.

It’s always better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

5.56mm


29 posted on 09/22/2018 4:07:06 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: Reno89519
Yes, a fence, not a wall.

The part you can see through is called a “Bollard Wall”. Agents said they prefer to see through the wall. It is 30 feet high, approximately 15 feet deep.

30 posted on 09/22/2018 4:11:52 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!)
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To: dragnet2

Trump isn’t waffling on The Wall.

Trump remains passionately committed to The Wall.

Trump is uncertain about how to get Congress to fund The Wall.


31 posted on 09/22/2018 4:21:14 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Architect of Avalon

mexico money transfers from the us. go fund me account try anything


32 posted on 09/22/2018 4:22:16 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: morphing libertarian

I agree, and Trump needs a theme for the next 6.25 years: Go Around Congress.


33 posted on 09/22/2018 4:24:41 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Architect of Avalon

zatlee


34 posted on 09/22/2018 4:25:10 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Architect of Avalon

I see you’re the architect let’s geter done


35 posted on 09/22/2018 4:25:44 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

lone mexican at border wall in san diego disrupting things

graphic language

https://www.facebook.com/185929688788037/videos/887230418332371/?fref=gs&dti=1090956554377537&hc_location=group


36 posted on 09/22/2018 4:35:43 PM PDT by rolling_stone (Hang em slowly don't boil the rope make it a little short...)
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To: Hostage

We should have a memorial of all the people killed or lives destroyed by the illegals, much like the Vietnam Wall.

Some kind of constant reminder.


37 posted on 09/22/2018 4:49:31 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Pravious

“Four miles out of 2,000?”

This is one MORE segment under construction. 28 miles are currently being built in San Diego (14 miles of double barrier), 2.25 miles in Calexico, and 20 miles extending West from El Paso. Most importantly, 33 miles in the Rio Grande Valley has been funded, and is in the contracting process. Those 33 miles will transform the area that now experiences the highest rate of illegal crossing.

When this top of the line “Trump stlyle” gets built, it also includes patrol road, lights, cameras and sensors; that further improve effectiveness.


38 posted on 09/22/2018 4:58:16 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s AMERICA’s border wall, not Trump’s.


39 posted on 09/22/2018 5:01:25 PM PDT by TChad
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To: BeauBo

I’ve just got to wonder why most of the people running our Government seem so dead set against doing something that the majority of the population obviously wants.

Do the RATS actually WANT the country over-run with drugs and crime? Or do they only see potential voters and more power and have tunnel vision? And what, except corruption, could POSSIBLY be stopping the Republicans from jumping on board what is probably the issue, above all, that got Trump elected? Do we really need a new government before we can finally have secure borders?


40 posted on 09/22/2018 5:03:57 PM PDT by Pravious
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