Posted on 03/11/2020 10:06:26 AM PDT by BeauBo
as of 6 March 2020: 135 miles completed, 204 miles under construction, 414 miles in pre-construction
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105, 204, 414.
How many miles are considered “Adequately protected” by natural barriers or the desert itself?
How many miles “Now adequately protected” by the existing walls and barriers? Many were terrible of course, but not all were left decrepit and open.
TRACK THE STATUS OF TRUMP’S BORDER WALL
Project overview (interactive map below)
https://www.trumpwall.construction/
“How many miles are considered “Adequately protected” by natural barriers or the desert itself?”
Every single mile needs technology that can reliably detect intruders, in time for the available response to arrest them.
After a thorough analysis though, 1,100 total miles of effective barrier were determined to be needed (out of the 1,954 miles of the Southern Border). 221 miles of the existing barrier has been assessed as effective.
I have two big uncertainties, on how to calculate from the unclassified summaries that I have seen published. I am not sure, if they count a linear mile of double layer barrier as one mile of barrier or two, and I am not sure if they count those 221 effective pre-existing miles as part of the 1,100 mile requirement (I think they do).
The ballpark is that about half of the border needs barrier system, but every inch needs to be effectively monitored and patrolled. They have technology programs rolling out now to dramatically improve detection and tracking in areas without barrier. Where ever the new “Wall System” barrier is going in, technology is going in there as well.
The total length of the continental border is 1,954 miles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_barrier
thanx for the heads up on the wall
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