Posted on 09/05/2019 7:37:55 PM PDT by BeauBo
Construction on a Pentagon-funded portion of border fence began this week near Yuma, Arizona...
The 30-foot (9-meter) steel fence will be built along the Colorado River in a section of border that had a big increase in migrant families earlier this year, but slowed to a trickle in recent weeks. The exact details of the project are unclear, but it appears it will consist of about 5 miles of fencing...
At Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Ajo, Arizona, the government is already working on a 2-mile stretch of 30-foot (9-meter) steel fencing to replace older barriers. In New Mexico, crews are building barriers on a 46-mile stretch of desert west of Santa Teresa that will replace shorter fencing. Both projects are also funded by the Defense Department.
In a letter addressing several border wall construction projects on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said they “will deter illegal entry, increase the vanishing time of those illegally crossing the border, and channel migrants to ports of entry.”...
The construction comes as immigrant apprehensions have fallen sharply over the past two months because of the summer heat and a clampdown on migrants in Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
This segment will run from the Morelos Dam, South along the River - mighty 30 footers.
Separately, DoD is also funding Segments running North from the Dam, and then West past the Andrade Port of Entry - also awesome 30 foot Trump super barrier.
Excellent news.
i haven’t seen any of the “not one micrometer of new walls have been built” FReepers on any of these wall-building threads for a long time now ...
They’ve been busy on DU.
“They’ve been busy on DU.”
LOL!
“the “not one micrometer of new walls have been built” FReepers”...
The San Diego Secondary barrier, due to be complete in January, is half done, and will include 1 1/2 miles where there was no previous secondary barrier (there was some lame “landing mat” primary barrier). They may have already been doing some of that gap, so the status of “no new wall” is already unclear.
DoD’s recent approval of using $3.6 billion in Military Construction funding for the wall, includes extending San Diego’s primary barrier two miles further East into the mountains (where none existed before), and the secondary barrier for 1 1/2 more new” miles. It also includes a lot of “new” secondary barrier, in Calexico, Tecate and the Goldwater Test Range.
Contracts have already been awarded for a few segments of totally new barrier where none existed before, in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Clearing of vegetation and placement of survey markers have been reported, so those projects seem imminent, but delays in the Rio Grande Valley seem to run longer than elsewhere - nonetheless, they should break ground soon.
About 110 totally “new” miles (not counting “new” secondary barrier) are included in the plans for the money already in hand - most of it in the Rio Grande Valley. The bulk of that will likely be done by the election.
We are off to the races now - full scale deployment. About 20% to 25% will be “new” as we go forward to the election.
Yep! Another "open-borders" organization is heard from... The clear propaganda meme in their statement is that we don't need the steenk'n wall, mexico and nature have it all under control...
I’ve driven the I-8 just recently from Gila Bend to San Diego (right thru Yuma), this is no bullshit.
“Another day, another segment of towering border wall started.
This segment will run from the Morelos Dam, South along the River - mighty 30 footers.
Separately, DoD is also funding Segments running North from the Dam, and then West past the Andrade Port of Entry - also awesome 30 foot Trump super barrier.”
Thanks for your updates with specific info. It’s great!
IMHO, Hogwash! {:-)
You are saying that because I sent my 300,000 mile beater to the junk yard, my "new" car is NOT really "new"... Hogwash!
Where Trump style “Wall System” (bollards, good patrol road, cameras, alarm systems, sensors, lighting) has gone in (e.g. San Diego Primary barrier and Calexico), we are already seeing huge operational improvements.
As this super “wall System” spreads like mushrooms after the rain over the next 15 months, we are going to see increasing operational effects from it.
By the end of next Summer, the physical barrier infrastructure itself will be a really significant impediment to migrants, shifting flows significantly to areas more favorable to the defense (and likely setting cartels to each other’s throats over new routes).
Policy and International cooperation will likely be even better by then as well, having further effects on reducing illegal immigration.
I am with you on, on the Left’s misleading use of the word “new”, to dismiss the significant new super barrier being deployed to the highest priority areas.
San Diego, the biggest city on the border, has had their security transformed. That’s new. And its hugely significant. But they try to pooh pooh it as “not new”.
The Trump-style “wall system” that is going in is not just a taller and stronger fence replacing a previous one. It is a whole package of capabilities, to achieve full operational control of that area - cameras, sensors, alarm systems, lights, high speed patrol road.
When the Trump-style barrier goes in, that area of the border is profoundly tamed.
If there’s one thing are great and wonderful president knows.
its construction
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