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    San Diego receives additional $251 Million in border fence funding

    San Diego receives additional $251M in border fence funding







    Each panel of steel shows where smugglers have cut through the fence using everything from cordless grinders, hacksaws, axes to sledge hammers where work crews must make constant repairs to the border fence. The secondary fence will be replaced with new funding from Congress. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)


    Kate Morrissey Contact Reporter

    San Diego received an additional $251 million for border construction in the spending bill signed by President Donald Trump.

    That money is part of $1.6 billion that the omnibus legislation allocated to various infrastructure projects, a mixture of replacement and new fencing, along the southwest border. The San Diego funds will replace 14 miles of secondary fencing, steel mesh topped in some places with razor wire that runs, with some gaps, from Border Field State Park to Trump’s border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa.


    That fencing went up in the 2000s as a second layer to give agents time to respond when people made it across the shorter fence closer to Mexico.


    The new secondary fence must provide “cross-barrier visual situational awareness,” which, for agents, generally means that they want to be able to see through the barrier to know if anyone is coming. Only the San Diego fencing project has this requirement explicitly laid out in the legislation.


    Over the course of the border wall debate, both agents and the president have emphasized this need as a matter of agent safety. Only some of the barriers currently in place are see-through, and most of the wall prototypes are not.

    Trump called the $1.6 billion in funding a “down payment” on his promised border wall.


    But the legislation limits the funding’s use to designs that are already in place along the border, which means the administration can’t use the president’s wall prototypes for the new projects.


    The spending bill allocates $641 million for projects in the Rio Grande Valley, the Border Patrol sector with the highest numbers of apprehensions of unauthorized border crossers. It gives $445 million to replace fencing in unspecified locations along the southwest border, $38 million for planning and design and another $196 million for border security technology.


    Ronald Vitiello, Customs and Border Protection acting deputy commissioner, echoed the president’s characterization of the funding in a press conference on Friday where he described “100 miles of border wall system” that the agency plans to install with the money.

    “It does not fully fund our needs in the most critical locations,” Vitiello said.


    He was particularly frustrated that the legislation prevents the agency from using the money to build in the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge.


    “Congress decided our priorities weren’t theirs,” he said, “and they moved it elsewhere.”


    He dismissed claims that some agents have said they don’t think a border wall is necessary.


    “The truth is walls work, and the data show it and agents know it,” Vitiello said.


    Some projects of the about 100 miles he discussed were funded before the most recent bill, including another 14 miles of replacement fence in San Diego, 2 miles of replacement fence in Calexico and 20 miles of fence replacing a vehicle barrier in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.


    Vitiello said all of the projects would happen this year.


    The previously-funded project in San Diego will replace 14 miles of primary fencing — the fence closer to Mexico made of Vietnam war landing mats that went up in the 90s — along the same stretch as the project to replace secondary fencing.


    The area is covered under a waiver signed last year by the homeland security secretary to expedite border construction by ignoring certain environmental, land management and natural resource laws. Environmental groups challenged this waiver in court, and a federal judge sided with the Trump administration in late February.


    The new primary fence will be similar to the bollards, or posts set close together, currently being constructed in Calexico. Agents have said they prefer the bollard-style fencing because they can see through it.


    Trump tweeted photos of the Calexico construction project this week, calling it “the start of our Southern Border WALL.”


    The $18-million Calexico project was planned in 2009, well before Trump began talking about a wall as a candidate. Many have questioned whether it’s a wall at all because of its see-through design.


    The new bollard fence there is 30-feet tall, a trait it shares with Trump’s border wall prototypes.


    Prior to the Trump administration, agents commonly referred to the barriers currently in place as “fences,” but now they are often using “wall” to describe what’s already there.


    The Santa Teresa project will be the next on the list to break ground. It’s scheduled to start in early April.

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    Prior to the Trump administration, agents commonly referred to the barriers currently in place as “fences,” but now they are often using “wall” to describe what’s already there.
    That's like calling an illegal alien a immigrant. Come on, we're not fools, we know exactly what Trump promised us. Let's not degrade an actual wall by referring to a fence as a wall!

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