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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Truly shocking that you had a reasonably major populated area like McAllen with no wall until now. It’s one thing if it was wide open desert or unpassable terrain, but an area with a major Mexican highway not too far? Wow.
From what I could tell from looking
a satellite maps, the existing levies
are earthen. It would make sense to
replace them with concrete. To prevent
erosion and tunneling.
Monarch butterflies migrate from central
Mexico to southern Canada. A 30’ wall
isn’t going to stop them.
SAVE THE BUTTERFLIES!
Sez you! They’ll strain their little wings trying to fly over that wall, only to be squished by evil ICE agents.
Ha! They’ll be like bugs on a windshield,
smashing into those steel slats...
You fiend!
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.Yes, but what branch? If Congress, you run into same problem. If from some fund already approved for state emergencies that say, the President could approve then you'd have something.
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