DHS Issues Waiver for Border Wall in South Texas, 100 Miles Underway Across the Southwest Border

Texas Border Business ^ | Aug 26, 2025 | US Customs and Border Protection

[BeauBo]

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has signed a waiver to ensure the expeditious construction of approximately five miles of new 30-foot-tall border wall in Starr and Hidalgo Counties in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas...

...Currently, CBP has approximately 100 miles of new border barrier in various stages of construction and planning, funded with appropriations from prior years. In addition, CBP was appropriated $46.5 Billion for border barrier system construction in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1)”, which was signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: border; borderwall; dhs; immigration; wall

[BeauBo]

These five miles of new barrier will fill key gaps in the Rio Grande Valley Sector of South Texas, that had been left open in hard to police Wildlife Reserve areas. That was a big obstacle during the first Trump Administration, now swatted away like a mosquito.

The big money bomb for border wall construction in the Big Beautiful Bill is still working through the contracting process, and has not yet hit the ground, but it is going to huge when it does (in weeks to months from now).

[hinckley buzzard]

I love when the skeptics mock the wall and then take pictures of it…with not an illegal anywhere in sight, of course,

[Carry_Okie]

If nothing else this wall will protect those “refuge” lands from illegals using them as dumping grounds.

[gibsonguy]

This is good, focus on saving Texas. I’d like to see AZ saved too but that thieving bitch Hobbs is doing all she can to keep the invasion going.

[Gene Eric]

IIRC, Poland shoots uninvited border crossers

[BeauBo]

The El Paso, Texas border, with one of the 50 now ubiquitous Stryker Combat Vehicles stationed there:

There will probably be a beehive of construction activity kicking off along the border by Christmas. The plan is to finish the wall during this Administration, and the money is on hand.

[BeauBo]

The El Paso, Texas border, with one of the 50 now ubiquitous Stryker Combat Vehicles stationed there:

There will probably be a beehive of construction activity kicking off along the border by Christmas. The plan is to finish the wall during this Administration, and the money is on hand.

[BeauBo]

“I’d like to see AZ saved too”

Arizona is getting buttoned up good with Trump-style Border Barrier System, and Military controlled National Defense Areas established in the East out of Ft. Huachuca, and in the West out of the Marine Base in Yuma.

With right of way secured along the entire Arizona/Mexico border under the Roosevelt Reservation, and full funding already in hand, I expect the entire Arizona border to be walled off by the end of next year, except for the Tohono O’odham Reservation.

[thinden]

outstanding news, BeauBo