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Trump Begins Construction of Texas Border Wall Canceled by Biden
Breitbart ^ | 6 Mar 2025 | Bob Price

Posted on 03/06/2025 1:01:03 PM PST by SoConPubbie

A border wall upgrade construction project canceled by President Joe Biden is back underway in the Texas Rio Grande Valley.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks announced that the Trump administration ordered the restart of a Biden-era-canceled border wall upgrade project along the Texas border with Mexico.

Banks reported that the project will replace six-foot guard rails with 18-foot bollard panels. They are designed to “provide impedance and denial capabilities” to illegal aliens crossing the border from Mexico into Texas.

” These panels were originally planned for installation during the prior Trump Administration, but the contracts were cancelled (sic) by the Biden Administration,” Banks stated. “The panels going in today will replace the six-foot guard rails and will provide impedance and denial capabilities in support of the President’s recent Executive Orders to ensure complete operational control of the Southern border.”

The announcement comes on the same day the Vice President JD Vance and other top Trump officials visited the Texas border in Eagle Pass. Breitbart’s Randy Clark reported that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard joined the vice president on the border tour.

“The president has said we need sustained commitment from the government of Mexico to take the job of border security seriously,” the vice president told reporters. “Fentanyl is the single largest cause of death among young Americans, and we know that a substantial portion of … the precursors are made in China. They come to Mexico. They’re manufactured in Mexico and brought across the border by the Mexican drug cartels.” .

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; borderwall; trump
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Chief Michael W Banks: USBP Chief - "Back in Business"

USBP began installing 18-foot-tall border wall panels in the Rio Grande Valley Sector’s Hidalgo County today. These panels were originally planned for installation during the prior Trump Administration, but the contracts were cancelled by the Biden

1 posted on 03/06/2025 1:01:03 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

WOO WOO


2 posted on 03/06/2025 1:01:56 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: SoConPubbie

Lawsuits incoming in 3..2..1


3 posted on 03/06/2025 1:05:26 PM PST by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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“These panels were originally planned for installation during the prior Trump Administration, but the contracts were cancelled (sic) by the Biden Administration”

If they were planned for installation during the Trump administration how was Biden able to cancel them?


4 posted on 03/06/2025 1:10:51 PM PST by JSM_Liberty
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“the contracts were cancelled (sic) by the Biden Administration:”

I don't think putting a second ‘l’ in canceled merits a “sic”.

5 posted on 03/06/2025 1:12:02 PM PST by Stingray51 ( )
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To: PMAS

The Great Wall got built faster! :)

dems and judges...to heck with them both.

The GWOC took 2000 years to build, actually..I just looked it up.

Wow.


6 posted on 03/06/2025 1:16:29 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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prayers 🙏

Come—let’s build the wall of Jerusalem and not live with this disgrace any longer.” - Nehemiah 2:17

7 posted on 03/06/2025 1:23:39 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: SoConPubbie

DID the materials Biden sold of for pennies get recovered???


8 posted on 03/06/2025 1:27:30 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: SoConPubbie

We need a full border wall and there are 4 years to ensure it is done. If we are getting rid of illegals we need to be confident they are not coming back. A full wall is part of that. Then, constant military patrols on the entire border wall. Drones, boots, manned aircraft, sensors, all in the mix with rapid response forces to stop any crossing attempts. Plus tunnel monitoring. I want more, but this would be a good start.


9 posted on 03/06/2025 1:29:45 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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They were purchased by a construction company and gifted back to the Trump administration.


10 posted on 03/06/2025 1:36:30 PM PST by Fai Mao ( Democrats need to go to prison.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Good let’s finally complete the wall.


11 posted on 03/06/2025 1:38:08 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: JSM_Liberty

Contracts were in progress when Biden took office. Biden cancelled the contracts... contractors were given one day notice to shut down.

Materials were there, it was nuts to stop in progress work. I was told taxpayers had to pay contractors through end of contracts though they were not allowed to work. Right before Trump was sworn in Biden put materials up on an online auction site. After that became public somehow it was stopped.


12 posted on 03/06/2025 1:48:50 PM PST by Tammy8 ( )
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Biden (and his crime family) are such pathetic, self-centered sociopathic criminals. It is unfortunate that he (and they)_ cannot/will not be brought to justice for his many crimes.


13 posted on 03/06/2025 1:59:13 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: SoConPubbie

And don’t stop until it is finished.


14 posted on 03/06/2025 2:08:44 PM PST by Dahoser (Liz Cheney needs to work on her soccer skills so she fits in when she transfers to Guantanamo High.)
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Drill, Baby, drill . . those post holes.


15 posted on 03/06/2025 2:20:00 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
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To: Stingray51

“don’t think putting a second ‘l’ in canceled merits a “sic”.”

Either way is OK per dictionary.com


16 posted on 03/06/2025 3:01:42 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: dp0622

They didn’t have aliens helping them like the Egyptians.


17 posted on 03/06/2025 3:03:52 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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Razor wire. Lots and lots of it.


18 posted on 03/06/2025 3:06:40 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: PMAS

Notice that when the Biden administration cancelled contracts the courts could not care less.


19 posted on 03/06/2025 3:14:44 PM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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• Notice that when the Biden administration cancelled contracts the courts could not care less”

Did Republicans even take them to court?


20 posted on 03/06/2025 3:16:16 PM PST by Freee-dame ( )
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