Posted on 03/24/2022 8:15:46 AM PDT by re_tail20
The State of Texas is scheduled to complete a two-mile section of local border wall this week, according to a project contractor. Additional jobs are in the works and some are nearing completion in other sectors.
Video shot by Breitbart Texas shows the expanse of the new Texas-funded border wall that a contractor on the project says will complete this week. The tw0-mile-long border wall span is being built along a state-owned right of way in an area notorious for narcotics and human smuggling, Border Patrol officials previously told Breitbart. The close proximity to residential neighborhoods enables smugglers and migrants to quickly disappear.
This section of the border wall is being built on the site where Eagle Pass Station Border Patrol Agent Jefferson was killed in January 1996 by narcotics smugglers.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the construction of the border wall last June. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas, Governor Abbott announced the immediate construction by the State of new border barriers.
“The influx across the border is out of control, and the Biden Administration has shown that is not going to step up and do its job,” the governor said at the time. “And amidst reports of even more people coming in across the border, we know we have to step up and do more.”
The new border wall consists of 18-foot tall steel bollards with a concrete base. There are multiple gates in the wall that can be opened by law enforcement officials as necessary.
Earlier this month, Governor Abbott told Breitbart the State will be building additional border wall segments utilizing 30-foot bollard wall panels acquired by Texas from the federal government. The panels were being stored by the Biden Administration after the president canceled congressionally approved border wall project.
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That’s going to put a crimp on Biden’s narcotics and human trafficking calls for air strike on fence?.
So, the most an illegal needs to walk is one mile to get around it.
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