“From McAllen to Eagle Pass”
McAllen is getting some major fortifications, but Congress explicitly required five small (1-2 mile) gaps be left open. Border Patrol and new technology will concentrate there. It is going to block the great bulk of the current flow through the Rio Grande Valley - a major change for the region.
Del Rio has experienced a particularly large (in percentage terms) jump this year. Some flow may be diverting to there.
The three biggest corridors are getting shut, this year and next (San Diego, the Rio Grande Valley and Yuma), so a lot of the current flow will have to attempt less favorable routes.
The 509 miles of barrier that the Trump Administration has already funded is going to go pretty deep down the Border Patrol’s priority list. I expect that they will be resourceful next year as well, and get a couple of hundred more miles in the pipeline. Hopefully from Falcon Lake all the way up to Box Canyon/Amistad Reservoir.
congress setting standards for a wall they didn’t approve?