C’mon man... have you not seen the walls (term used very loosely) that they are replacing??????
Replacing a snow fence with a 30 ft steel “barrier” IS a NEW wall.
Replacing anti vehicle (anti tank) barriers, that people can pass through faster than a turnstile, with a 30 ft steel “barrier” IS a NEW wall.
It’s just gubmit spending semantics. New vs repair. Lots of money appropriated for “repair” and Trump has been spending that.
Building, oops I mean repairing old walls/fences by tearing them out completely and putting in their places a brand NEW, oops I mean replacement WALL, oops I mean barrier.
Semantics.
Here is an example from Calexico, Ca. New bollards on the left, old landing mat on the right. The landing mat has no foundation, and local kids can scrape away enough dirt to squirm under in just a few minutes.
11 more miles of new 30 foot bollards will be replacing the landing mat in this photo, starting in the next couple of months.