Posted on 01/10/2020 8:52:40 PM PST by BeauBo
The Trump administration on Friday marked the 100th mile of wall construction along the southern border -- describing it as a “milestone achievement” and promising that there are many more miles to come by the end of the year.
“Today is a milestone that has been reached and a celebration is in order,” Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said in front of wall in Yuma, Arizona...
President Trump tweeted: "Entire Wall is under construction or getting ready to start!"
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“Glad to see from your comments that South Texas from Del Rio to Laredo to Falcon Reservoir to the Gulf are priority for 2020 dollars.”
I think the 2020 appropriation ($1.4 billion, 60-70 miles)will likely go to Laredo and South of there to Falcon Lake. People around there have gotten official survey notices. I hope that additional DoD money will run it up through Del Rio, but no strong indicators yet.
Calexico and Tecate are already under construction with 30 footers, and will be getting significant secondary barrier as well. Jacumba Wilderness has a run under construction now, And from the edge of the San Diego barrier around Otay Mesa, East to the next run of pre-existing bollards, has already been awarded on contract, but was on hold until this week’s court ruling freed up the money.
Haven’t heard anything about El Paso. The Western flank is getting built all the way out to the top of the “bootheel” of the NM border, so basically the Eastern flank would be the main area of interest, and there are some pre-existing bollards there already. A few more miles might be all they need.
Thx again for keeping current with details across the geography.
The Trump team has done an incredible job, against all odds. Love the secondary barriers in the urban areas. Now this is govt dollars well spent.
Everything transparent and accountable. With the dogged resistance of Democraps all the way, it looks like cartel money laundered through law firms. Once bought they stay bought.
Cartels need to spend now on drones for delivery of drugs. Human trafficking taking a big hit. Creative destruction by Trump delivers chaos to their business models.
You can’t cover two thousand miles of border with a wall until you build the first mile of wall.
Or 100 miles of wall.
Progress is slowly being made and completely understandable with the enormity of physical infrastructure. 2020 visually is all about border wall.
What concerns me is the enemy on the inside around the border. Once past the 64 mile extension from San Luis AZ to Lukeville AZ on the Organ Pipe border is the (sp?) T’ohono Oodham Indian res immediately to the east then the mountain ranges from Sasabe to Nogales to Sierra Vista.
The Indian res spans across the border, is large in area and poor. Have not seen recent articles on this but have to believe native Indians on both sides are involved in some capacity in drug running. High tech monitoring from fixed and movable towers and drones will play a big impact here.
This needs to be run at a federal level. Suspect local political and law enforcement cover are getting enriched from all the drug traffic siphoned between Organ Pipe and Sierra Vista. Especially as CA and eastern AZ get shut down.
From Del Rio to Eagle Pass to Laredo area (El Cenizo) there have to be lots of lawless colonias that collaborate in the drug trade. Need articles investigating this. How many of these residents are illegals and then govt response to deal with it.
OK, so we get Juan and a few of his amigos but we don’t get Juanita and their 42 bambinos.
Colonias section in wikipedia for RGV
The major metropolitan areas in the Rio Grande River Valley are surrounded by smaller rural communities called Colonias.[37] These communities are primarily poor and Hispanic. A case study of Corazón, a colonia in the region was studied and found to contain a majority of Hispanic working-class people who spoke Spanish as their primary language.[38] The areas often lack basic services like sanitation and sewage.[39] Flooding and lack of trash collection are among the major sanitation issues in colonias.[37] According to several sources including the book Justice and Space Matter in a Strong, United Latino Community, zoning laws and building codes are not enforced.[38] Many of these colonias are mixes of mobile homes and self-constructed houses owned by the residents.[40] The Bracero program enacted in the 1940s allowed Mexicans to cross the border and work in the agricultural fields. Most worked in the Rio Grande Valley, and due to a shortage of affordable houses, developers started selling them land in unincorporated areas; these clusters of homes over time became what are now known as Colonias.[37] According to the Housing Assistance Council, a nonprofit organization that tracks rural housing, approximately 1.6 million people live in 1,500 recognized colonias alongside the Mexico–United States border.[37
Good news!
What a jolly person you are!
Funny, people have called me that before
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