He also said that 49 projects are now active. That is a lot of crews at work. Over two miles getting done each work day.
They said it would not never happen. They said that Trump should lay down his arms and stop fighting for it.
Posted on 08/18/2020 5:47:42 PM PDT by BeauBo
President Trump’s border wall construction will reach 300 miles at the end of this week, a top Army Corps of Engineers official said on Tuesday as he gave Mr. Trump a tour of the border region in Arizona.
New wall is going up at a rate of 10 miles a week.
...and while 300 are almost completed, another 300 are under construction. The remaining mileage is still in planning.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
He also said that 49 projects are now active. That is a lot of crews at work. Over two miles getting done each work day.
They said it would not never happen. They said that Trump should lay down his arms and stop fighting for it.
‘You don’t hear about the wall anymore because we won’
President Donald J. Trump
This last Monday's report would likely have been 285 or more, and next Monday's report (as of the end of this week) easily 295 or more, at our current 10 mile (or more) per week pace.
We already had an 11 mile week recently, so if they ramped up to a 12 and 13, then we could crack the 300 mile threshold this week.
I often have said that it is going to be glorious.
Now I'm just saying, It's Glorious!
Only a couple thousand miles to go in the south.
Money well spent! I love this president , may God bless him and his loved ones as he wallows through the scum that permeate D.C.
I think Trump is holding it in reserve as a massive accomplishment. Massive!
Probably only 1,000 miles or less of the Southern Border needs barrier, to control illegal immigration.
The first 300-400 miles on the priority list, do 80% or more of the current traffic routes.
Because of land acquisition delays in South Texas (Rio Grande Valley and Laredo Sectors) those high priority miles were late getting into construction. The RGV is now fully contracted (over 100 miles) and some segments are already under construction. Laredo is recently about half contracted (31 of 69 miles).
When those high priority miles are done in 2021, it will be a massive train wreck for illegal immigration through our Southern Border. The easy routes, through urban areas along the border will be closed, and the remaining routes will be long exposed treks, under massive new technological surveillance.
In fact, the train wreck is already starting, in the areas where the new Trump-style Super Barrier System is completing, like San Diego.
Okay. But what about the millions of illegals already here, ruining our middle class neighborhoods because anyone with a section 8 voucher is gold plated to the criminal absentee homeowners who suck up all that federal lucre? These rental pukes give U.S. citizens the finger while they move into our single family housing communities and live fifteen illegals to a house, laughing at our stupid laws and complete non- enforcement of zoning regs.
It is a glorious accomplishment!
2 miles a day is especially amazing since the summer temps in AZ are over 100 this week
These reports are a real pick-me-up, BeauBo.
Thanks for posting.
Now lets start on Canada
“Okay. But what about the millions of illegals already here”?
There was a large “all of Government” effort to change policies to disincentivize illegal immigration, led by White House Advisor Stephen Miller last year. It included dozens, if not hundreds of changes to remove benefits from illegal immigrants, and expedite their removal.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson came out with a host of new policies that favored American citizens, and removed availability to illegal immigrants.
Remember the targeted raids in sanctuary cities last year, and the Federal policies to deny a variety of funding to such cities?
Just today, DHS Secretary Chad Wolf said that 90% of illegal immigrants caught entering the USA, are now deported in under 120 minutes!
Things have changed across the board, in a rapid and dramatic fashion. With COVID and the election, a lot of the changes are under the radar now, but still mounting massively.
Some of that terrain poses a natural boundary
This video is drone coverage of the entire border so you get an idea of what had to be overcome to do this project
American will and ingenuity.
I do believe Trump is the only man who could have accomplished this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piVd_6VPpyM
“Now lets start on Canada”
Some of the new technology has already started deploying along the Canadian Border. They are getting a big plus up.
I’m assuming this is reporting new wall.
How much ‘old wall’ has been replaced?
The old stuff wasn’t really wall, more like a big line in the sand, but it seems to me that that mileage is equally important.
Imagine how far along we would be if Ryan acted like Republican.
“I’m assuming this is reporting new wall.
How much ‘old wall’ has been replaced?”
It is hard to keep up with the changing number, and the Administration does not recognize the validity of the distinction, so it is not officially reported. The great bulk of the 300 miles completed, are in areas that had some kind of barrier before.
If illegal traffic in an area is high, it does not matter if there is ineffective barrier there, or no barrier - it needs effective new barrier, and that is what should get done first (even if Harpy Ann Coulter will complain).
When they build a mile of effective barrier, it is new, whether something was there before or not. When you buy a new car, or build a new deck, they are new - even if they replace an old one.
There was something before in most places that desperately needed a new effective barrier - except along the Rio Grande River in Texas. That is where you will see the great bulk of new barrier, where no barrier of any sort ever previously existed.
Now that more than 130 miles are awarded on contract down there, the number of such miles is creeping up each week, as well as in a smattering of other sites, like the extension of San Diego’s barrier over Otay Mountain in the East, to link up to the next run of pre-existing bollards.
As the project progresses down the priority list, an increasingly higher proportion will be in areas where nothing at all was ever installed before. But the first few hundred miles on the priority list, have always been high traffic routes (border cities and the Rio Grande Valley), so there has always been a need to mark and block those areas somehow, even if only with a strand of barbed wire and a sign.
Out of the more than 730 miles now funded (the highest priorities), well over 200 will be miles where nothing of any sort previously existed. Overwhelmingly, this will be in Texas, but some of the rougher terrain in the Western States is now also getting built where nothing was run before (typically just a few miles here or there, connecting or extending some of the long runs across the flat terrain).
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