Trump's border wall lurches closer to schedule (Status Update)

Axios ^ | Apr 16, 2026 | Brittany Gibson

[BeauBo]

The U.S. has built roughly 50 miles of primary border wall along the southern border, 5.5 miles of buoy barriers in the water and 13.2 miles of secondary barriers, Customs and Border Protection commissioner Rodney Scott told Congress on Thursday (16 April 2026)...

...Scott told Congress the effort is now "ahead of schedule and we're below budget." (Planned to complete before the end of President Trump's current term - already fully funded)

By the numbers: The agency anticipated that it could build about 10 miles of wall per week (at peak pace), according to an interview with the Washington Examiner.

Scott's figures show progress closer to about 3.5 miles constructed per week since early-February. (Stephen Miller reported that the pace has since raised to a rate of 5 miles per week, and continues to accelerate as more contracts are awarded and more contractors start work)

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TOPICS: Reference
KEYWORDS: border; borderwall; mexico; shovelready; shovelreadyproject; wall

[ansel12]

LOL, I think you guys missed the point, it was that the wall is an idea far older than most people realize, not that this modern, advanced version of today, is a duplicate of what was on the drawing boards in the distant past and unknown numbers of millions of illegals ago.

The history of the BP opposing the wall in the past is a part of that interesting history that is probably unknown by most, and surprising.

[donozark]

Have been waiting for an update from you. I read Border Report once a week. Trying to keep up with what the opposition is up to. They are screaming about loss of habitat. Disfiguring Tohono O’odham Native American artifacts, etc. I equate the level of screeching to the success Trump is having.

Thanx again for posting!

[ansel12]

In this debate question both the fence parts and the wall parts are mentioned, the 7.3 billion dollars are for the Texas part alone.

3 minutes— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEgJh-1i1Cw

[goodnesswins]

better start planning the Northern Border Wall NOW.

[BeauBo]

Texas is almost 2/3rds of the border with Mexico, with a lot of hydrological and treaty concerns along the Rio Grande, and a lot of Private property owners on the border, unlike the other border States, where the Roosevelt Reservation Federally controls the length of their border.

Even this go round, where essentially price is no object, Texas won’t be completely walled off from Mexico. Indeed, most of the remaining unwalled (although heavily monitored, for now) portions will be in Texas. It is almost too easy to build in the other States, by comparison.

[BeauBo]

We are in high cotton for building the wall.

It’s going to be glorious!

[BeauBo]

“That danged “map” page includes no map...”

It used to have a map. I think they took down the graphic, when the plane was recently changed, to drop bollard barrier in Big Bend National Park. Maybe they will put a revised graphic up later...

[BeauBo]

Upon searching, I saw that CBP took down the map that they used to graphically update, on 23 April 2026. Now they just publish the totals.

[Reynoldo]

Great information.

Thank you

[BeauBo]

"I read Border Report once a week."

From 7 May: "HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — The federal government has begun installing waterborne buoys in the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas, City Councilwoman Melissa Cigarroa says.

Construction began Wednesday (6 May 2026), Cigarroa said on Thursday’s episode Border Report Live.

She said the council has been told they cannot stop the installation of the giant orange buoys, which are meant to stop immigration from Mexico."

Some of the wildest Cartel violence in all of Mexico (which is saying a lot) has been just across this open river from Laredo, Texas; in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Now it is getting buttoned up with barrier in the River, and Bollards and tall embankment walls (Downtown) on the US bank, as well as a host of new detection technology.

Laredo is also incorporated into the Department of the Air Force's Del Rio-Falcon National Defense Area (NDA) 6, covering approximately 150 miles of the border from Falcon Dam, Texas — about 270 miles west of the mouth of the Rio Grande River — to Del Rio, Texas, approximately 420 miles west of the river’s mouth.