Posted on 10/30/2020 12:27:31 PM PDT by ransomnote
Over 400 miles of new border wall system is now complete. Just as important, the Trump Administration is prosecuting and deporting violent criminals, stopping the flow of illegal drugs, and closing the loopholes that help human smugglers while hurting our own citizens, including legal immigrants.
“The refugee system—set up to provide refuge for victims of war and persecution who had nowhere else to go, often on an explicitly temporary basis—had long since become a racket,” National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd writes.
“It provided prestigious jobs in Washington for ‘resettlement experts’ and taxpayer money for glorified slumlords, while generating massive fallout for unsuspecting American communities. Today the system has finally been returned to its proper role.”
With other strong actions from the Trump Administration, including building the border wall, apprehensions for illegal immigration dropped 70% between last May and this August. And during the past fiscal year alone, U.S. law enforcement seized over 100,000 pounds of cocaine, 83,000 pounds of meth, 2,700 pounds of fentanyl, and more.
“The progress we are celebrating here did not happen by accident. The many miles of border wall system exists because of the will and vision of President Trump, and the dedication and hard work of the men and women of DHS, the Army Corps of Engineers and our colleagues from across the Administration,” Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said.
Illegal immigration hurts everyone. It empowers criminals, bankrolls human smugglers, and fuels transnational gangs. It costs both legal immigrants and U.S. citizens a shot at the American Dream. It endangers law enforcement officers, makes our communities less stable, and puts law-abiding workers and businesses at a disadvantage.
Open borders would make all of these problems worse and destroy Americans’ trust in their government. A safe, strong country needs a safe, strong immigration system.
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Harder to enter here, harder to commit crimes here
Harder to smuggle drugs in, harder to deal drugs that didn’t make it in
Both cases, these types of crimes go down
It may have reached 400 miles but Twitter will not allow you to post it because it’s hate speech. lol
It may have reached 400 miles but Twitter will not allow you to post it because it’s hate speech. lol
400 down, 1554 to go.
The Trump administration is building new wall and doing so faster than ever before. Currently wall construction continues at the southwest border (SWB) with the administration’s goal of 450 new miles of wall system on track for the end of the calendar year.
As summed up below by Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, the current status of the wall system’s construction is summed up as follows:
341 new miles completed
240 new miles under construction
157 new miles under the pre-construction process
Furthermore, as Acting Secretary Chad Wolf illustrated in his recent State of the Homeland Address, the timeline has been accelerating since construction began:
“In January, we reached 100 miles of new border wall system. In June, we achieved 200 miles. In August, we marked the 300th mile—and by the end of this calendar year we will reach over 450 miles of new border wall system.”
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/09/29/dhs-wall-construction-update-september-29-2020
400 down, 1554 to go.
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The Trump administration is building new wall and doing so faster than ever before. Currently wall construction continues at the southwest border (SWB) with the administration’s goal of 450 new miles of wall system on track for the end of the calendar year.
As summed up below by Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, the current status of the wall system’s construction is summed up as follows:
341 new miles completed
240 new miles under construction
157 new miles under the pre-construction process
Furthermore, as Acting Secretary Chad Wolf illustrated in his recent State of the Homeland Address, the timeline has been accelerating since construction began:
“In January, we reached 100 miles of new border wall system. In June, we achieved 200 miles. In August, we marked the 300th mile—and by the end of this calendar year we will reach over 450 miles of new border wall system.”
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/09/29/dhs-wall-construction-update-september-29-2020
Good to hear. I’m still wondering why it is taking so long when President Trump promised to start construction on it back in 2016, though. It’s not like the Demonrats had control of either house of Congress until 2018.
The article was written yesterday. The official we’d site was updated on the 19th.
You do realize that things happen over established time intervals?
At the ceremony commemorating 400 miles, DHS Secretary Chad Wolf highlighted how powerful policy changes have been as well.
Last year, more than 500,000 illegal entrants had to be released into the country. But this year so far, it has been less than 15,000 - and it has only been on reasonable humanitarian and legal bases, rather than some blind rule or capacity constraint. It is now a controlled process.
Mexico and Guatemala now halt any “caravans”, more than a thousand miles away from our border.
Mexico has established a new specially empowered 26,000 man National Guard force, dedicated to controlling the border and immigration. They are proving effective. During a given shift, they add the additional equivalent of the US Border Patrol Agents on shift, on the Mexican side of the border (a big change).
The “Wait in Mexico” Policy (AKA Migrant Protection Protocols) has crushed the false asylum loophole.
COVID policies have resulted in over 90% of illegal entrants apprehended, being deported within two hours!
This is the mighty new barrier (from the Mexico side) that illegals now face in this area of the Rio Grande Valley - where no barrier at all existed before. 150 feet to the South is a cleared observation area, that is highly instrumented to detect footfalls, movement or body heat.
What a transformation!
“400 down, 1554 to go.”
221 miles of pre-existing barrier has been assessed as operationally effective, and does not need to be replaced.
So 621 miles down.
338 more are funded, so the Program already is already structured to get 959 done.
After careful analysis, Border Patrol has formally assessed the total barrier requirement to be about 1,100 miles (along with thousands of additional full time positions, and several large Technology Programs). So only about the last (lowest priority) 150 miles or so remain to be funded.
The Trump Administration has identified the funds for those last miles (FY 2020 Military Construction Accounts), but has not yet transferred the money to the Corps of Engineers’ Wall Contracting Account. They seem to be waiting until after the election, to see if there will be a less painful option of getting the needed money from a new Republican Congress, before taking that big hit to the Military.
Bottom Line: The whole Comprehensive Plan for Full Operational Control of the Southern Border has been funded by the Trump Administration in the first Term, but construction will continue for another year or two, for contractors to deliver the finished product.
The massive Technology Programs that have also been funded and contracted, are on roughly the same timeline - this year and next are rapid full scale deployment. It is happening so quickly, that the effects are going to be shocking, once people realize them.
By the end of next year, we will be approaching a fully controlled border, for the first time in history.
Massive earth moving is building new road through these mountains, and establishing basing areas for sentry posts and mast mounted surveillance and communications, to dominate the local terrain.
“I’m still wondering why it is taking so long when President Trump promised to start construction on it back in 2016”
Congress wanted a thorough analysis done before funding it. All the accountants and analysts at the the CBO and OMB had to signoff on it, and they wanted to incorporate the lessons learned from the prototyping competition into the design as well, before sinking the money.
The Comprehensive Plan for Full Operational Control of the Southern Border (which the President mandated his first week in office, through Executive Order 13767) was not finally accepted by Congress until December 2018.
When the new Democrat Congress refused full funding several weeks later, in February 2019, President Trump immediately implemented his well prepared backup funding plan (before the Dems budget even made it to his desk). He declared an Emergency, and began full scale deployment with diverted Military funds. The planned (aggressive) Program schedule did not miss a beat, with the big money bomb for full scale deployment arriving on time, despite the worst obstacles that the Democrats and the Left could muster.
I can’t think of anyone else who would have been able to overcome those obstacles.
Compared to Government Programs generally, and Government Construction Programs in particular (which generally take even longer), the Trump Border Wall Program has been amazingly quick. These things are just hard and time consuming - but now this revolutionary new Border Wall System is going up more than ten miles per week, and the new Technology Programs are rolling out even quicker, while DHS continues to staff up.
We’ve been running about ten miles per week pretty consistently. There has been a gap in reporting, but we should have cracked 390 this week, and 400 next week.
One would think that the Trump campaign would herald those accomplishments.
RINO’s were in control of both house from 2016 to 2018. Trump got blocked on everything he wanted to do until he just did it. He had to overcome Democrats, RINOs, DOJ, CIA, FBI, and almost all media outlets.
I know it’s been a long time ago but. . . you should remember
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