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The plan is thorough and complete, and the prep work has been ongoing these last three years. The money is on hand, and the pool of qualified contractors is all pre-screened, and ready to source the materials and ramp up more crews and equipment.
It is full scale deployment now, and it is dwarfing what we saw during the first three years.
The effects of this Super Wall System shutting off the carefully selected highest priority routes, is really going to mount from this point forward. It is no longer just a drop in the bucket, but is beginning to fundamentally alter the situation on the ground.
San Diego (the biggest city on the border) - illegal traffic already down over 90%.
Yuma (historically the third heaviest traveled route) is half done, with several crews working at once. They are already seeing improvements. By the end of this year, that door will be largely closed.
The main battle of securing the Southern Border has long been the 100 open miles in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, where almost half of the total traffic crosses. If that gets done, everything else is easier, and less important.
Those never before fenced miles are now on contract, and multiple crews have broken ground. We should see more crews getting underway there in the next months as well, as all of those contracts get into their performance periods.
Neighboring Laredo Sector (the likely alternate route as the Rio Grande Sector finally gets buttoned up) is funded for virtually complete closure as well, but the contracts have only recently started to drop there, so not that much is likely to get done this year. They should get it all contracted, and the funding obligated (and start some work), before Inauguration Day, 2021.
Bottom Line: Between now and Christmas, new border wall system will strongly shake up the status quo on the border. The Cartels are going to start buzzing around each other like a hornet’s nest was kicked. By the end of next year (given a re-elected President Trump), we will be approaching full operational control of the Southern Border.