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
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!
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.
One would think that the Trump campaign would herald those accomplishments.
