Thread: Contractor makes progress on new border wall in New Mexico

Contractor makes progress on new border wall in New Mexico

The Associated PressAugust 17, 2018 01:15 AM
Updated August 17, 2018 01:16 AM

SANTA TERESA, N.M. Construction workers have completed more than half of a new barrier along a desolate stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in southern New Mexico as part of President Donald Trump's fight against drug trafficking and illegal immigration.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials confirmed this week that more than 8,100 panels spanning more than 11 miles (18 kilometers) had been constructed as of Aug. 8.

Work on the $73 million project west of Santa Teresa, near New Mexico's state line with Texas, began in April.

Officials have touted the new wall as harder to get over, under and through. When finished, it will cover 20 miles (32-kilometers), replacing old post and rail barriers that were meant to stop vehicles but have been useless against people trying to cross on foot.

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4/9/18

DHS to build 20-mile wall along border in New Mexico

GOOD!

Cut off every dime to Mexico and Central America and build that WALL!

Trump’s New Border ‘Wall’ Resembles Fence Obama Constructed That Illegal Aliens Recently Hopped Over

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A new fencing project underway by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at the United States-Mexico border is being touted by President Trump’s administration as his border “wall.”

The barrier going up in the Santa Teresa, New Mexico, is similar to that of the fencing that was constructed in Sunland Park, New Mexico, under former President Obama. The slight difference between the two fences? Height.

A DHS official told Breitbart News that the Santa Teresa border fence, to be constructed this year, will stand 30 feet tall. In some areas, though, the border fence will range between 18 feet to 30 feet tall.

Meanwhile, the Sunland Park border fence project—which started under Obama and was completed under Trump—stands at about 20 feet tall, but is, for the most part, the same type of bollard-style fence.

Here are photos of Trump’s new border fence set to go up in Santa Teresa, New Mexico:

Construction crews from Barnard Construction of Bozeman, Montana, stage material needed for the Santa Teresa Border Wall Replacement project near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry. The staging area, located at the abandoned Rio Grande Speedway in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, also showcases a scaled down example of what the bollard style wall will look like. (Photos by Mani Albrecht U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs Visual Communications Division)

Construction crews from Barnard Construction of Bozeman, Montana, stage material needed for the Santa Teresa Border Wall Replacement project near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry. The staging area, located at the abandoned Rio Grande Speedway in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, also showcases a scaled down example of what the bollard style wall will look like. (Photos by Mani Albrecht U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs Visual Communications Division)

Construction crews from Barnard Construction of Bozeman, Montana, stage material needed for the Santa Teresa Border Wall Replacement project near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry. The staging area, located at the abandoned Rio Grande Speedway in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, also showcases a scaled down example of what the bollard style wall will look like. (Photos by Mani Albrecht U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs Visual Communications Division)

Construction crews from Barnard Construction of Bozeman, Montana, stage material needed for the Santa Teresa Border Wall Replacement project near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry. The staging area, located at the abandoned Rio Grande Speedway in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, also showcases a scaled down example of what the bollard style wall will look like. (Photos by Mani Albrecht U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs Visual Communications Division)

Here are photos of Obama’s border fence that went up in Sunland Park, New Mexico:

In this Jan. 25, 2017, file photo, workers continue work raising a taller fence in the Mexico-U.S. border area separating the towns of Anapra, Mexico, and Sunland Park, N.M. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, that it plans to start awarding contracts by mid-April for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico, signaling that he is aggressively pursuing plans to erect “a great wall” along the 2,000-mile border. (AP Photo/Christian Torres, File)

In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, workers continue work raising a taller fence in the Mexico-U.S. border area separating the towns of Anapra, Mexico, and Sunland Park, N.M. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, that it plans to start awarding contracts by mid-April for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico, signaling that he is aggressively pursuing plans to erect “a great wall” along the 2,000-mile border. (AP Photo/Christian Torres, File)

A worker welds a new fence between the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Sunland Park, New Mexico, Thursday, March 30, 2017. The top three feet or so of the fence, which was planned and started before President Donald Trump’s election, are a solid panel of oxidized steel. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A portion of the new steel border fence stretches along the US-Mexico border in Sunland Park, New Mexico, Thursday, March 30, 2017. This fencing just west of the New Mexico state line was planned and started before President Donald Trump’s election, adding to the 650 miles of fences, walls and vehicle barriers that already exist along the nearly 2,000-mile frontier. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In 2013, Breitbart News noted how the only border fence in Sunland Park was a chain link fence. That fence was replaced by the Obama administration, which began building the bollard style fence in the last year of his presidency. The project was ultimately finished in mid-2017 under Trump.

Most recently, illegal aliens were photographed jumping over a portion of the Sunland Park border fence, crossing onto American soil. The photographs, as Breitbart News reported, went viral online.

Here, illegal aliens can be seen crossing the bollard border fence just last week:

A young Mexican helps a compatriot to climb the metal wall that divides the border between Mexico and the United States to cross illegally to Sunland Park, from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on April 6, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump on April 5, 2018 said he would send thousands of National Guard troops to the southern border, amid a widening spat with his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto. The anti-immigration president said the National Guard deployment would range from 2,000 to 4,000 troops, and he would “probably” keep many personnel on the border until his wall is built — spelling out a lengthy mission. (HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Young Mexicans help a compatriot to climb the metal wall that divides the border between Mexico and the United States to cross illegally to Sunland Park, from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on April 6, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump on April 5, 2018 said he would send thousands of National Guard troops to the southern border, amid a widening spat with his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto. The anti-immigration president said the National Guard deployment would range from 2,000 to 4,000 troops, and he would “probably” keep many personnel on the border until his wall is built — spelling out a lengthy mission. (HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

A young Mexican helps a compatriot to climb the metal wall that divides the border between Mexico and the United States to cross illegally to Sunland Park, from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on April 6, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump on April 5, 2018 said he would send thousands of National Guard troops to the southern border, amid a widening spat with his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto. The anti-immigration president said the National Guard deployment would range from 2,000 to 4,000 troops, and he would “probably” keep many personnel on the border until his wall is built — spelling out a lengthy mission. (HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

A young Mexican helps a compatriot to climb the metal wall that divides the border between Mexico and the United States to cross illegally to Sunland Park, from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on April 6, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump on April 5, 2018 said he would send thousands of National Guard troops to the southern border, amid a widening spat with his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto. The anti-immigration president said the National Guard deployment would range from 2,000 to 4,000 troops, and he would “probably” keep many personnel on the border until his wall is built — spelling out a lengthy mission. (HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

A young Mexican helps a compatriot to climb the metal wall that divides the border between Mexico and the United States to cross illegally to Sunland Park, from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on April 6, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump on April 5, 2018 said he would send thousands of National Guard troops to the southern border, amid a widening spat with his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto. The anti-immigration president said the National Guard deployment would range from 2,000 to 4,000 troops, and he would “probably” keep many personnel on the border until his wall is built — spelling out a lengthy mission. (HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

The Trump administration has made headway with building new border fences without the help of the Republican-controlled Congress. For example, DHS is underway with a project in Calexico, California, building new bollard fencing in the region to stop illegal immigration.

Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled Congress has stood with Democrats in the way of Trump’s vision for a larger border wall project made from highly effective wall prototypes that he visited last month.

The recent spending bill that congressional Republicans and Democrats sent to Trump, and he signed, actually bars the administration from building a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico using the prototype walls, Breitbart News reported.

Instead, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Republican leadership tied the Trump administration’s hands on the border, leaving them forced to construct only about 33 new miles of border fence using fencing that has been used by DHS in the past, like the bollard style fencing being erected in New Mexico.
While dealing with an uncooperative Republican leadership, the Trump administration has seen border-crossings tick back up to Obama era levels.

Last month, the Trump administration saw a more than 200 percent increase in illegal immigration when comparing March 2017 to March 2018. Trump was warned this month by allies that his base of supporters is increasingly fed up with a lack progress on ending illegal immigration.

Taking matters into his own hands, Trump has called for 2,000 to 4,000 National Guard troops to be sent to the U.S.-Mexico border to shore up Border Patrol agents so that illegal aliens can be more effectively arrested, detained, and deported.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

Don't be fooled folks. This is not the "border wall" Trump campaigned on!

Now go back and install a big drum roller on top, grease it up and let it roll one-way back to Mexico.

We do not want them getting over it!

Plant cactus on the bottom on our side!

New Mexico Completes More Than Half Of Its Border Wall Section

The wall: Building a continuous US-Mexico barrier would be a tall order


Topics: The Trump Era / The Wall

By Michael Corey and Andrew Becker / January 22, 2017

Building the border wall has been central to President Donald Trump’s promises and it will be central to Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting’s coverage this year. We will be exploring the feasibility of various proposals as they emerge.


Trump has said a lot of things about that wall, but it’s still not clear exactly what he means.

• At one point, he said the wall would be 35 to 40 feet high and made of precast concrete, which he estimated would cost about $8 billion to construct.
• On other occasions, he has said it could be as high as 65 feet. (For comparison, the tallest sections of the current fence are about 20 feet tall.)
• He has repeatedly corrected journalists who called his project a “fence,” saying he is building “a real wall.” We don’t yet know whether he thinks any of the current fence meets that definition.
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We do know a lot about the current border fence, though, because we’ve been collecting and analyzing data on it for years. Based on that, here’s a rundown of the job the new president has ahead of him.

Is what we have now a wall or a fence?

If by a wall, you mean a large vertical structure that’s not full of holes, then the current border barrier is definitely a fence, or rather a series of fences. There are many types of fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Some sections are tall and are designed to block people from entering on foot – so-called pedestrian fence.
Examples of pedestrian fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Other large sections of the fence are only a few feet tall and can be climbed over easily. These sections, designed to stop vehicles from crossing, stretch across more remote areas where it would be difficult to cross the border safely on foot.
Examples of vehicle fence on the U.S.-Mexico border. Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Where is the border fenced today?

It depends on whom you ask. Many numbers have been suggested by government agencies, and Customs and Border Protection for years refused to release detailed spatial data about fence locations. In 2012, we started tracing the border fence using open-source mapping tools.
Later, Denise Gilman, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, sued the government under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain detailed PDF maps of the fence systems. (In an illustration of just how difficult FOIA work can be, she told Reveal that she filed her initial request in 2008 but didn’t get final maps until 2013.)
Reveal spent the first weeks of this year converting those PDFs into digital maps that can be used for analysis, combining it with our previous fence work to create the most detailed border fence map publicly available.
According to our new map, there are 700 miles of fence along the U.S.-Mexico border – a Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman recently said the total is 702, so our tally is very close to the agency’s. However, in some high-traffic spots, there are two or three layers of fence in one place, leaving somewhere between 652 and 690 miles of the border actually covered by fence.
The U.S.-Mexico border fence system today. Pedestrian fence is colored dark orange, vehicle fence in light orange. Credit: Reveal research, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, OpenStreetMap, Allison McCartney

Those miles are divided into at least 385 miles of pedestrian fence and at least 301 miles of vehicle fence. (That leaves a few miles unclassified, which are clearly fenced but don’t appear on the Customs and Border Protection maps obtained through public records requests.)
Many shorter segments of fencing have been built along the border since the early 1900s. The Clinton administration built about 19 miles at the San Diego-Tijuana border. Then, George W. Bush spearheaded the biggest expansion, which led to the construction of 523 miles of fence.
Today, the San Diego-Tijuana boundary has the most elaborate fencing system, with multiple layers of pedestrian fence in some places.
Multiple layers of pedestrian fence between San Diego and Tijuana. Credit: Reveal research, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, OpenStreetMap, Google Earth/Digital Globe

But in remote areas, a single strand of vehicle fence can be the only marker of the international boundary.
Vehicle fence in southern Arizona, just north of a road in Sonora, Mexico. Credit: Google Earth/DigitalGlobe

Where is there no fence at all?

Most of the border – 65 percent of the nearly 2,000-mile border – has no fence. In its place are natural barriers such as rivers, cliffs and mountains that make it difficult to cross or difficult to build. Some of these are places with so little movement across the border that previous administrations have deemed a barrier unnecessary.
The 1,288 miles along the U.S.-Mexico border with no fence are outlined in purple. Credit: Reveal research, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, OpenStreetMap, Allison McCartney

The biggest unfenced sections are in Texas, where the Rio Grande River forms a natural barrier. Other large gaps are in remote parts of New Mexico and Arizona.
Here and there, the fence also has smaller stops and starts.
A mountain cuts through sections of border fence southeast of Yuma, Arizona. Credit: Google Earth and Matt Stiles/NPR

The Eagle Pass Municipal Golf Course in Eagle Pass, Texas, is sandwiched between the Rio Grande River and sections of border fence approved during George W. Bush’s presidency. Credit: Reveal research, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, OpenStreetMap, Google Earth/Digital Globe

What has Trump said that he wants?

In February 2016, Trump told MSNBC that the wall would be approximately 1,000 miles long, because “we have natural barriers” that mean a fence along the other 1,000 miles isn’t necessary.
Most other estimates of the cost to build Trump’s wall are much higher than his $8 billion figure. Writing in MIT Technology Review, Konstantin Kakaes estimated that the construction costs for a 1,000-mile concrete fence would range from $30 billion to over $40 billion. This cost would not include demolishing existing fence to replace it with a new wall, if Trump chooses to do that instead.
The Washington Post estimated $42 billion for 1,000 miles of a 25-foot wall.
For comparison, the United States’ newest aircraft carrier cost about $13 billion. So estimates for the fence range from 0.6 aircraft carriers to 3.2 aircraft carriers.
But, much like an aircraft carrier, construction is far from the only cost involved. Maintenance has been a constant headache along the border fence. Besides wear and tear from being exposed to the elements, people often cut through or damage the fence intentionally. New roads will need to be built to expand the system, and those roads also will need to be maintained.
Damaged and repaired border fence, seen from the Tijuana airport. Credit: Michael Corey/Reveal

According to a March 2016 U.S. Government Accountability Office study, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that maintaining the existing fence cost the department at least $7.2 million in 2010.

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Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

The biggest unfenced sections are in Texas, where the Rio Grande River forms a natural barrier.

NO, the Rio Grande River does NOT form a natural barrier!

So when they tell us there are already 600 to 700 miles of fence, we need to know of that 300 miles looks like this

one single strand of wire



or this