Posted on 06/22/2019 10:37:03 AM PDT by re_tail20
About two miles of border wall are being built per week right now, according to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan.
“[It’s] coming along aggressively,” he told President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House on June 12. “By the end of next year, over 400 miles [will be built].”
Trump predicted it might be closer to 500 miles, and said, “We have to kick and scream for every inch because the Democrats just will not give us what we need.”
New and replacement wall is currently being constructed near San Diego, as well as San Luis, Arizona, and El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Ground excavation is underway in Otay Mesa in the San Diego Sector, CBP said on June 11. The 14 miles of new wall will act as a secondary barrier. It will be 30 feet high and “will be outfitted with smart detection technology that keeps Border Patrol agents safe while deterring illicit cross-border activity,” CBP wrote on Twitter.
In San Luis, Arizona, around 22 miles of primary fencing is being constructed, with about 1 mile completed by May 30, according to CBP.
A total of 44 miles of steel bollard pedestrian barrier is to replace ineffective fencing in the Yuma, El Centro, and San Diego sectors.
And in the Rio Grande Valley—where the river, and its propensity to flood, causes additional challenges for fencing options—the focus is on levee walls that will double as border barrier, as well as gates to close gaps in existing fencing.
Construction started on April 4 for a new, 13-mile stretch of levee wall in Hidalgo County, about a mile north of the Rio Grande.
Twenty miles of fencing has been completed in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, just...
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Sounds like that old Fable...The Turtle and the Hare.
Another Day - Another One Third Mile of Bollard Border Wall. I’ll Take It.
So how do “fencing” and “steel bollard pedestrian barrier” differ from walls 30 feet high outfitted with smart detection technology?
Excellent. Keep it up and it will get built.
So at 100 miles a year the 2000 mile border should be fully barricaded in 20 years?
More like the three-toed sloth and the cheetah.
At this rate, we can anticipate a secure border in 30 years—if we have a border-securing government for the next 30 years.
Our sovereignty is over.
Meanwhile, is it intention or incompetence?
Apparently the acting head of the DHS, quoted in this article, is a leaking anti-Trumper: the third out of three that Trump has named (and just this spring, too, albeit this time on an acting basis) to run DHS who is actively working against Trump’s purported anti-illegal immigration positions:
“So at 100 miles a year the 2000 mile border should be fully barricaded in 20 years?”
Every bit is good, and decreases the extent of territory that has to be patrolled frequently.
That’s odd.
I read somewhere earlier that Homan had praised him earlier as a great step from Kirsten Njeilsen.
“[It’s] coming along aggressively,” he told President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House on June 12. “By the end of next year, over 400 miles [will be built].”
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“[It’s] coming along aggressively,” he told President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House on June 12. “By the end of next year, over 400 miles [will be built].”
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There ya go again....turning a positive thread into a negative.
2174 is our year!!!
Some of the “wall” has been built. Not every inch of border requires a barrier.
Drill here, drill now was poo-pooed by poop heads* who said it would take too long.
20 years is not too long, the pity is we didn't start 20 years ago.
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* I am NOT saying YOU are a poop head!
I was gonna be “in before some idiot FReeper says it’s not enough”, but I’m too late.
Not enough? Who’s your congressman?
We need 100% wall coverage because Border Patrol is completely ineffective at stopping the flow. Not their fault, it is the Rat rules that let the invaders stay instead of being repelled like a real border.
When McAleenan first came on the job, he said the average time frame for border wall construction from actual appropriation of money to awarding of contracts to surveying to permits to regulations waiving and harmony to actual starting construction was about two years. They also have to factor in fighting for every penny from other parts of the Federal Budget - as neither the Democrats or the bulk of Republicans want border security over a certain effective level. Trump is making sure they get it whether they like it or not.
“Apparently the acting head of the DHS, quoted in this article, is a leaking anti-Trumper:”
That’s essentially what Tom Homan was alleging when I saw him on TV this morning. He was pissed, fit to be tied.
Maybe they should hire Kolfage and let him triple his crew. They could do 2 miles a day with three times the crew and equipment and probably do it cheaper.
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