Posted on 08/27/2019 2:24:57 PM PDT by BeauBo
STARR COUNTY, Texas – (Yesterday, Mon, August 26, was) the last chance for public comments regarding the proposed border wall construction in Starr County (actually, almost the whole Rio Grande Valley)...
The proposed action is to construct a border wall system... (which) would consist of 30-foot tall steel posts and enforcement zones with gates and surveillance technology.
(Excerpt) Read more at kveo.com ...
Normally, there is a 1-3 month delay before contract awards follow. Because the fiscal year ends on September 30th though, there may be an effort to get some contracts awarded before that.
This is overwhelmingly funded by Congressional appropriations, but it looks like this is where the Government also plans (for the first time) to spend some of the Treasury Department's asset forfeiture money.
The Rio Grande Valley is the long pole in the tent of securing the Southern Border. These 95 miles pretty much will do it.
We are off to races!
I gotta comment. BUILD IT KNOW!
They need to award the contracts tomorrow and start building Monday.
“They need to award the contracts tomorrow and start building Monday.”
A good number of the over 700 comments are non-trivial. A lot of private property, homes and businesses will be on the South side of the barrier, and need to be accommodated.
They may have anticipated everything, and have contracts ready to award, but likely they will take a few weeks to review the comments with engineers and contractors.
They do turn things around blazingly fast for a Government program though.
After the 30’ slat wall is up the only illegals that make it through will be really skinny ones.
Cars won’t be able to drive through it. Pregnant women, and children will be unable to climb it. It will slow down the few people able to climb it, and the people who will climb it will not be able to do so without being detected. Therefore, walls do not work
Does this include Claymores, unmanned guard towers equipped with motion sensing mini-guns, and patrolled from the air with A10s and Apache helos?
That would be a good start until we can come up with something really serious.
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“Does this include Claymores?”
No, but it does include hidden tripwire-like alarm systems, that will be triggered nearly 100% of the time.
“unmanned guard towers equipped with motion sensing mini-guns?”
Unmanned guard towers with complete coverage of persistent surveillance monitored from command centers and by AI software - it is still a BYOMinigun party.
“and patrolled from the air with A10s and Apache helos?”
It is regularly patrolled by CBP’s own organic aviation (CBP Air and Marine Operations, which operates UH-60 Blackawks, AS250 Observation choppers, P3 Orion surveillance aircraft, and others), as well as Military support flights (one of the standing functions of the Military deployment to the border.
Additionally they have a series of tethered aerostats (blimps), their own fleet of aerial drones (including their own Predators), and additional Military drone support (which apparently is growing sharply this year). They also have layers of counter-air capabilities - radars, lidar, acoustic sensors and other; for every type of flying threat.
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