Federal Officials Once Again Building Border Wall

News Radio 1200 WOAI - San Antonio's First News ^ | Jan 26, 2025 | Ethan Buchanan

[BeauBo]

After four years, federal officials under President Trump are once again working on the construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump's new border patrol chief, Michael Banks, says the construction of the wall exemplifies the administration's "commitment to enhancing infrastructure and operational effectiveness."

Banks also posted images of the construction underway in New Mexico (Deming), saying that they are working on plugging gaps in the wall that were left after former President Joe Biden stopped construction of the wall in early 2021.

[BeauBo]

Well that didn't take long.

Nor is it likely to overall, this time around.

The National Emergencies Act to utilize the Military and Military funds, has already been invoked.

No need for prototyping and a design flyoff competition - the design is already completed, and already translated into tested contract specifications.

Industry is already well experienced in performing to those specs.

Just add money. $25 Billion of five year construction funding (delivered in the first year, with five years to execute), would basically do the job.

No more foot dragging please. There are none of the design or performance risks, that were cited in President Trump's first term, to dribble out funding. Just drop the money bomb up front, and watch the results in Trump speed.

Get the job done.

[CdMGuy]

Build that wall. Build that wall.

[A Navy Vet]

Well stated.

[Seaplaner]

A related idea for the Trump Admin to consider.

How about a nice big TARIFF on Mexican-produced goods and Mexicans' entry until...

A. Mexico ceases all (all) aiding and abetting illegal entry, and...

B. Mexico accepts back millions and millions of illegal aliens, whose illegal entry into our country they chose to facilitate.

[Paladin2]

Yeah, baby!

Winning [for those who haven’t seen it:]!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRIB8qWHS-Q

[maddog55]

I’d prefer minefields with bleachers and betting booths.

[BeauBo]

I believe if mines were found to be safe and effective, they would be incorporated. Fun aside, they are not safe for the Border Patrol Officers involved.

Another Freeper asked in mail if the design would not be better, if the barrier leaned 10 degrees to the South, to be harder to climb.

For the good of the order, here is what we discussed:

The Border Patrol has accumulated decades of experience and statistics on their bollard barrier systems.

They have to meet many threats, in addition to climbers - sawing holes, tunnelling under, ramming with vehicles, even explosive charges.

No matter how difficult to climb a barrier might be, with the right tools (like gun fired grappling hooks and motorized rope ascenders), some professionals (cartels) can overcome them.

So they design the barrier to defeat the bulk of climbers, and delay the real pros enough to interdict them. There is a certain “Border Calculus” to how much time it takes a climber to get away.

In a border city like Tijuana/San Diego, or Juarez/ElPaso, they can quickly hop into a car or into backyards. In locations like that, double barriers are used with a patrolled exclusion area in between, and more Patrol officers must be on station for each mile, for rapid response. In very rural areas, they might be tracked by an aerial drone for a day, before being interdicted.

The bollard barrier itself is just part of the barrier system, which includes, lights, cameras, hidden alarm systems, all weather patrol roads and clear fields of observation. All the camera and sensor feeds are linked back into a system shared among the command posts, and monitored with artificial intelligence software, that will alert watch officers, and slew the cameras right onto the threat (responding Officers know exactly what they will be engaging).

So Border Patrol went through a very deliberate drill of specifying the all threats and how to measure them, which were used to test different design features, early in President Trump’s first term. The resulting design is essentially the Border Patrol’s whole wish list of everything that they wanted, to make their job more effective.

We just have to finish building it.

[joe fonebone]

Does someone have a map that shows completed wall and gaps to be filled

[TangoLimaSierra]

Good explanation. A lot of people don’t know it’s not just a wall.

[ducttape45]

Great to hear! Now, about that oil pipeline.......

[BeauBo]

“Does someone have a map that shows completed wall and gaps to be filled”

Here is what was planned in the First Trump Admin:

https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/border-wall-system

Not all of that was finished, due to the Biden hold.

But a lot of analysis and prioritization went into picking where to build first, second and third; so the most important miles (like San Diego) did get done. About 500 mile of new Trump style super barrier system got built, but in many/most cases, it was replacing ineffective barrier, rather than in green field locations, where not even a strand of barbed wire had been strung before (leading to some deliberately misleading reports of how much “new” wall got built).

Texas is the long pole in the tent. Texas has 1,250 miles of border with Mexico. Unlike the other States bordering Mexico, Texas is not part of the Roosevelt Reservation, which reserved a Federal easement along the Mexican Border.

Hundreds of private landowners own the land along the Rio Grande River, which forms much of the Texas Border. Hydrology also presents a special consideration for barrier construction along the River (they get hurricanes in the Southern Rio Grande Valley).

Texas also has some of the most remote and inhospitable border areas though, where crossing on foot is far beyond the average persons capability (like Big Bend Sector), and barrier is least needed.

[PIF]

finished when they build towers with over lapping fields of fire for the automatic Quad .50s. Works for South Korea, no reason it will not work here.

[PIF]

Does someone have a map that shows completed wall and gaps to be filled

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Yes, but you’ll have to Freep mail a cartel member to get it.

[donozark]

Looking forward to following your posts on the Wall as I did from 2016 to 2020, when the Alzheimer’s patient took over.

[lurk]

Plug up the hot spots first. Then go for the secondaries.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I’d prefer minefields with bleachers and betting booths.”

With moats protected by ill tempered bass with frikkin laser beams on their heads. You can bet a parlay.

[TXBlair]

Love it! 😂😂

[Paladin2]

Not a minute too soon to get it on....

[BeauBo]

Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming has reintroduced his legislation, to re-direct left over COVID funding to build the wall.

That would be an elegant, and effective solution.

Likely the Congress will roll the wall funding into the big Trump Agenda bill they are preparing.

When the money comes, we will be off to the races.

[Candor7]

Randomly electrify sections of that wall daily.

Make it glow in the dark.

Put lightning rods on the top of every section. and set up attached storage capacitors.