Posted on 02/05/2019 3:38:11 AM PST by 11th_VA
The U.S. government is preparing to begin construction of more border walls and fencing in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, likely on federally owned land set aside as wildlife refuge property.
Heavy construction equipment was expected to arrive starting Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. A photo posted by the nonprofit National Butterfly Center shows an excavator parked next to its property.
Congress last March approved more than $600 million for 33 miles (53 kilometers) of new barriers in the Rio Grande Valley. While President Donald Trump and top Democrats remain in a standoff over Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion in border wall funding, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has pushed ahead with building what’s already funded.
That construction was often described as fencing, and the government funding bill that included construction was supported by some Democrats in the House and Senate. CBP refers to what it plans to build as a “border wall system.”
According to designs it released in September , CBP intends to build 25 miles (40 kilometers) of concrete walls to the height of the existing flood-control levee in Hidalgo County next to the Rio Grande, the river that forms the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. On top of the concrete walls, CBP will install 18-foot (5.5-meter) steel posts and clear a 150-foot (45-meter) enforcement zone in front...
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Interesting if completed. Concrete here? Even better. The funky rusty looking steel border is going up in other places.
Soros protestitutes haven’t shown up yet.
FYI:
I clicked on the web site and my Malwarebytes blocked a Trojan Horse. Be careful. DM
quick, aren’t there some spotted owls or something living near there? injuns? anything?? :-/
Butterflies. Gentle creatures with dewy eyes.
No match for the D-9 heavy earthmover...
It will be massive concrete levee, up to the height of the existing levee (which varies by local elevation. Then it is 18 foot steel bollards on top.
The wildlife refuges become TRULY refuges, when they are no longer being trampled on an almost daily basis by migrants moving through, disturbing the local fauna and flora. Build the wall, which perhaps TEMPORARILY disturbs the environment, so the long-term survival of the protected areas may be assured far into the future.
When the benefits of this far-sighted policy become obvious to the individual landowners in the vicinity, they will all be clamoring for the construction to proceed across their lands as well.
Last April
Lots of videos here
Anti-American DemocRATS, like Pelosi and Schumer are outraged!
All it would take, really, is for the Governor of Texas to declare a State Emergency and ask for emergency funds and support from the Federal government.
It doesn’t appear to be tunnel-proof.
Anything that outrages those vile scum is good for America.
If the state can put up a mile of freeway sound wall in a few days, this ought to proceed at a few miles per day with enough equipment.
Entrance to the National Park runs about 80 miles straight south.
You mean the killdozer?
Pull yourself across the river: https://www.google.com/maps/search/los+ebanos+ferry+/@26.2413117,-98.5759439,14z/data=!3m1!4b1
See #18
We really don't need "fencing" that undoubtibly is far easier to breach. We need to just build the wall and stop messing around.
In FY 2018, an average of more than 33,000 were apprehended on the southern border EVERY month. A small cities worth of population, month after month after month after month.
Nearly 400,000 were caught FY 2018 alone.
**** Keep in mind, these numbers represent those who were caught. How many were not caught? ****
Southwest Apprehensions By Fiscal Year
| Total Apprehensions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sector | FY 2018 | FY 2017 |
| Big Bend TX | 8,045 | 6,002 |
| Del Rio TX | 15,833 | 13,476 |
| El Centro CA | 29,230 | 18,633 |
| El Paso TX | 31,561 | 25,193 |
| Laredo TX | 32,641 | 25,460 |
| Rio Grande TX | 162,262 | 137,562 |
| San Diego CA | 38,591 | 26,086 |
| Tucson AZ | 52,172 | 38,657 |
| Yuma AZ | 26,244 | 12,847 |
| USBP Southwest Border Total | 396,579 | 303,916 |
Texas apprehensions FY 2018 - 250,342
Texas apprehensions FY 2017 - 207,693
Arizona apprehensions FY 2018 - 78,416
Arizona apprehensions FY 2017 - 51,504
California apprehensions FY 2018 - 67,821
California apprehensions FY 2017 - 44,719
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