Thread: Federal Wall Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles of Fence

Originally Posted by Beezer

GET BOATS ON THE RIO GRANDE AND STOP THIS INVASION!!!

State of Texas has had them running up and down the Rio Grande for years now.

IF vehicle barrier is being replaced with that 18 ft. fence Trump is putting up, this obviously matters. IF that corrigated metal fence that is ready to fall down because of rust and age, is being replaced, it obviously matters also. THING IS, we need much much more than 500 miles of new wall on that border. YES, it appears a ton of what's already up there needs to be replaced because it's worthless vehicle barrier or that old corragated metal fence that was never any good in the first place unless it has razor wire on top of it. We probably need a MINIMUM of 1000 miles of fence and it really needs to be double fence with razor wire on both layers of it with a road in between.

Originally Posted by tonyklo

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders insisted Wednesday on TV that the administrationwill have 500 miles of wall built by year's end and would be twice as far along if Democrats were helping instead of pushing back

Selling her soul for power, fame, and dollars.

In the Steve Hilton interview, the President said 400 to 500 miles by the end of next year, 2020, not this year. Either Sarah misspoke or was misquoted by the Daily Mall. I can't find a YouTube of her statement and missed it live today. But it's not the end of this year, it's next year, according to the President's statement.

So Far, $1.57 Billion for Wall Yields 1.7 Miles of Fence

By Edvard Pettersson
May 21, 2019, 6:20 PM EDT Updated on May 22, 2019, 2:54 PM EDT

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has put up just 1.7 miles of fencing with the $1.57 billion that Congress appropriated last year for President Donald Trump’s wall along the Mexican border, a federal judge was told.

A lawyer for the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives provided the information Tuesday to the judge in Oakland, California, who is weighing requests from 20 state attorneys general and the the Sierra Club to block Trump from using funds not authorized by Congress to build the wall.

"The administration recently provided updated information to Congress on the status of its efforts as of April 30, 2019," the attorney, Douglas Letter, said in a court filing. "Based on that updated information, it appears that CBP has now constructed 1.7 miles of fencing with its fiscal year 2018 funding."

That was 3/4 of a mile more than the administration reported at the end of February, Letter said.

U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam had asked for the information at a May 17 hearing.
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A May 20 report by Customs and Border Protection on the status of the border wall specified that the $1.5 billion in 2018 funding is being used to update or build 80 miles of the border wall.

That includes 14 miles of new and updated wall panels near San Diego, which is expected to be finished early next year, and 13 miles of new construction in the Rio Grande Valley. It’s not clear when that part will be finished.

The report doesn’t state how much of the $1.5 billion has been spent to date, and doesn’t contradict Letter’s claim. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did hand out more than $800 million of the 2018 funding for new contracts, according to the report.

Contracts also have been awarded for 41 miles of new wall to replace pedestrian fencing in San Diego and Calexico, California, and Yuma, Arizona, which should be completed late next year, according to the report. Another 12 miles of new wall in the Rio Grande Valley requires additional consulting with local officials, the report said.

President Donald Trump also commented on the progress of the wall construction on Twitter Wednesday, saying “tremendous work is being done.”

In all, $6.1 billion in funding has been committed since 2017 for the wall, both to Customs and Border Protection and the Defense Department, for 336 miles, according to the report.

(Adds CBP report on wall construction in sixth paragraph.)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...miles-of-fence

Update: Wall Hoax lives on despite fake news being exposed. The $1.5 billion for 1.7 miles of wall, which is completely false, it's $1.5 billion for 80 miles of wall from the FY 2018 budget, made it to CNN, Don Lemon, and of course will never be corrected by them, millions of voters will hear that, and keep hearing it, and voters who might have supported the fencing/wall/barriers will conclude it's too expensive and oppose it. I guess that was the plan to begin with by those who fabricated the story.

Sad.

Originally Posted by Judy

Update: Wall Hoax lives on despite fake news being exposed. The $1.5 billion for 1.7 miles of wall, which is completely false, it's $1.5 billion for 80 miles of wall from the FY 2018 budget, made it to CNN, Don Lemon, and of course will never be corrected by them, millions of voters will hear that, and keep hearing it, and voters who might have supported the fencing/wall/barriers will conclude it's too expensive and oppose it. I guess that was the plan to begin with by those who fabricated the story.

Sad.

I think Trump has done more than enough to discourage voters about the wall. We now know that he has BP going around the fence to help the invaders in. They claim they are "obligated" to because they have stepped foot on US soil. Therefore we now know as long as Trump is President a wall is useless.

Oh, so, you didn't know how our asylum and UAC laws worked before Trump was elected President? Interesting.

I wasn't a big wall fan as people here know, until the new Trump design of the tall slated fence with the spikes. I like that one, and it should work pretty well, especially the ones they build 30 feet tall.

So I hope he can finish as much of that as possible.

Originally Posted by Judy

Oh, so, you didn't know how our asylum and UAC laws worked before Trump was elected President? Interesting.

I wasn't a big wall fan as people here know, until the new Trump design of the tall slated fence with the spikes. I like that one, and it should work pretty well, especially the ones they build 30 feet tall.

So I hope he can finish as much of that as possible.

So you think the new Trump design of the tall slated fence with the spikes will magically change those asylum and UAC laws?

You might want to check that one at the door of the Excuse Caboose.

Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

So you think the new Trump design of the tall slated fence with the spikes will magically change those asylum and UAC laws?

You might want to check that one at the door of the Excuse Caboose.

The wall has nothing to do with our asylum or UAC laws and won't stop one of those types of invaders. To stop access of those types of invaders to the United States, you have to change the laws. That's one of the many reasons the 2018 Midterms were so important to our cause here. Unfortunately, they didn't go our way, and now we're stuck with the consequences of losing the US House of Representatives.