Construction has begun on the fifth border wall project of Donald Trump's presidency, replacing up to 14 miles of barrier in San Diego.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday that the first panels are in place to replace a steel-mesh fence with steel bollards up to 30 feet high. SLSCO Ltd. of Galveston, Texas, was awarded the $101 million contract in December.
It is the second layer of barrier in San Diego. Work on replacing the first layer is nearly complete, which is also 14 miles long and made of steel bollards up to 30 feet high.
Construction began three days after Trump declared a national emergency to build his proposed border wall with Mexico.
Lawsuits have been filed by Anti-American communist bureaucrats over the emergency declaration, as they try their best to help the foreign invasion of America. These are very nasty bureaucrats who desire the destruction of our culture, the hard drugs being trafficked to kill off more American civilians and skyrocketing crime around border towns.
No, I simply injected some truth to it, thats all. Near the end if you haven't noticed.
Christopher Russell
There's no wall.
Jack Turner
It is good news. You don't have to be an utter fucking retard by telling us how to feel about it, you cumguzzler.
Brandon Davis
In many areas, no there is not. Thats why we need more funding for the border.
Elijah Hernandez
Who's "we"?
Hudson Stewart
We as in America.
Eli Lee
Oh, but my ladder will easily clear that fence so it's just a scam.
Xavier Thomas
Is that newspeak for chainlink fence?
Kayden Bell
Yeah, like wall is actually just fence. Short fence at that.
Benjamin Phillips
Mexicans will cut that fence up and recycling it for cash.
Nathan Bennett
this is nothing more than replacing old wall, and it was a scheduled during the Obama administration. Trump has absolutely nothing to do with this.
Grayson Watson
Can buy ladders at Amazon taller than that fence. They have a 7000 series Titan ladder for sale that is 32' tall and a 32' collapsible fire resistant rope ladder with hooks to go down the opposite side.
Levi Kelly
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Jackson Lopez
I said Amazon bone head and Amazon delivers.
Jordan James
So you love this wall because obama and #orangemanbad
Jose Carter
Still unlikely to happen. #1 that likely costs a lot of money which most dirty Mexis don't have. #2 even if they had one, they'd have to walk miles and miles up the the border wall, just to set it up and #3 even if they did that, they couldn't jump around the other side if its 30' up in the air without breaking their legs. By that time, border patrol would pass by, see them and nab them.
A little inconvenient FACT for you amnesty shills: walls are 99% effective at deterring unwanted 'migrants'. Always have been, always will be. Just ask Hungary about their new barbed wire fence that pissed Soros off dearly. Immigration plummeted after it was built.
A man trying to illegally cross the U.S. border broke both of his legs and injured his back after falling from the top of a 30-foot wall.
U.S. Border Patrol agents found the man, whose name has not been made public, with the severe injuries at Gran Plaza Outlet Mall in Calexico, California, around 9 p.m. Sunday. Paramedics determined he had bilateral femur fractures to both legs and he was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Palm Springs, Fox News reported.
Luis Foster
Daily Caller = FAKE NEWS.
Dylan Diaz
Hungarian Border Fence So Effective Illegal Immigrants Are Now At Pre Migrant-Crisis Levels
Nope. Sources are linked in there. There are other reports about it too. It happened and you can't stand the fact, because you are a pro-amnesty shill.
CALEXICO, Calif. — A man attempting to enter the United States illegally has fallen from a new 30-foot high wall in California, breaking both his legs.
Border Patrol surveillance video shows the man lying motionless on the ground after tossing his body over the bollard-style barrier Sunday night in downtown Calexico, east of San Diego.
Paramedics determined that the man broke his legs and may have injured his back. He was taken to a hospital in Palm Springs.
The Border Patrol didn’t identify the man. Spokesman Carlos Pitones says the U.S. government typically pays medical expenses for people who are injured crossing the border illegally and they are deported after recovery.
The government is replacing a 2-mile stretch of barrier made from recycled metal scraps and landing mat with the new bollard-style wall.
Adrian Powell
Nah, you just LIE.
Lucas Fisher
New York news is FAKE GLOBALIST NEWS.
Joshua Taylor
Breitbart is = to Infowars.
FAKE!
Zachary Brown
Trump supporters are not pro amnesty bone head.
Ian Howard
Then why are you shilling against the wall and denying basic facts that walls do help curb illegal immigration?
Doing so tells me all I need to know.
Carson Allen
And so is every other source I'd come up with to counter your lies and denial, so go fuck off you amnesty shill.
Jose Mitchell
Yes, you're correct it's all fake news.
I don't require anything from amnesty nor do I require drugs or trafficked people. No need for the name calling. Hostilities get you no ground here.
Kevin Bell
Walls are only effective because they're backed by governments that are extremely supportive of them - not like the US. The reason Israel's wall works is because if Palestinians gather around it they get shot at. Hungarian police on their border are known for severe brutality to any incoming 'migrants' that make it over. The US will not do any of this - you have misdiagnosed the problem. The problem isn't the lack of the physical barrier, it's that your government has to play with kid gloves on because of your out of control media. The Israeli media calls illegal immigrants 'invaders', would CNN ever do that? Fuck no. The culture war is the real solution here, don't make America OK with the wall - make them OK with a minefield and you won't need one.
Colton Foster
Yep, our fence is a scam.
Fences aren't walls.
Minefields are good.
Eli James
true actual real just
Jose Davis
thats why its monitered
Andrew Martin
monitored*
Tyler Gomez
well, well, well………………….
Neptune quits working for Jim, and Jim hires four more people to replace him, and harass Killcen
But some 700 miles of border fencing had already been completed along the country's nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico, much of it during Barack Obama's presidency, as part of the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which was signed by George W. Bush.
Trump’s tweets saying he’s already building the border wall, briefly explained
President Donald Trump wants his social media followers to know that even if Congress is unwilling to give him as much money as he wants for a border wall, he’s nonetheless building it. And he really is — with a couple significant caveats.
On Wednesday, Trump tweeted a time-lapse video from the Army Corps of Engineers that shows construction of bollard fencing along the southern border in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
“We have just built this powerful Wall in New Mexico,” Trump wrote. “Completed on January 30, 2019 — 47 days ahead of schedule! Many miles more now under construction! #FinishTheWall”
But Trump’s claim that the project in the video was “just built” is false. According to KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, the project — $73 million to build a “column-style wall that stretches for 20 miles west of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) port of entry in Santa Teresa” — was actually completed last November.
The wall-like structure in Santa Teresa isn’t new in more ways than one. The structure replaced fences and other barriers that were already there, KOAT-TV reports.
The AP reported that the project was “funded with operations and maintenance money budgeted through the Army Corps of Engineers,” which explains why the Army Corps of Engineers’ logo is on the video.
While the time frame that Trump presented in his tweet is misleading, it is true that the project was completed months ahead of schedule. For Trump, though, the exact facts are somewhat irrelevant — he just came out of a bruising battle with House Democrats over wall funding that he objectively lost, which resulted in him turning to a legally questionable and politically dubious emergency declaration to reallocate funding from other projects to build the wall. '''Now he wants to say that he won anyway, no matter the reality. “THE WALL IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW!”'''
On Thursday, Trump retweeted the video he posted the day before and wrote, “THE WALL IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW!”
Trump’s tweet is technically true, though it depends how you define “wall.” CBP recently started work on a project to upgrade 14 miles of existing border structures near San Diego. Work is also set to begin soon on a six-mile section of new border wall in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
Funding for all of the aforementioned projects came from congressional appropriations bills Trump signed in 2017 and 2018. Both of those bills explicitly prohibited Trump from building border wall prototypes he made a show of inspecting in San Diego in March of last year.
So while it’s true that Trump is building walls, he’s arguably not building “THE WALL.”
For Trump, perception is more important than reality
Trump’s tweets boasting about new wall construction come days after he declared a state of emergency he hopes will allow him to divert $3.6 billion in funds appropriated for military construction to build more border wall.
Lawsuits against Trump’s declaration have already been filed by the ACLU and a coalition of 16 states. While it’s unclear how the legal fight will play out, Trump did himself no favors last Friday when he said during the press conference in which he announced the emergency, “I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster.”
Meanwhile, House Democrats plan to introduce a resolution to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration as soon as Friday, February 22. As FiveThirtyEight detailed, the resolution is likely to be approved in the Democrat-controlled House and also has a good chance in the Republican-controlled Senate, which could force Trump to issue the first veto of his presidency.
It's like when he says he killed ISIS then he says he's still fighting ISIS then he says ISIS is all dead while patting himself on the back then turns around and says he is still fighting ISIS etc. Trump is a legend in his own mind. A fake, like the fence. His fake fence legal court battle is just smoke with no flame and once again he will blame them because he lies. If he wins anything it should be an Emmy. Fence prototypes all painted up nice for propaganda photos then look above at that ol rusty piece of shit in the photo. Though his base is totally blinded by their own ignorance with room temperature IQ's the charade will continue at their expense till next election thereafter he will wipe them from the earth in his second term or rather Barry's 4th term I meant to state.
Julian Baker
Add about 3000 volts to that fence and it becomes 10 times more effective.
Liam Taylor
Voltage doesn't kill people you idiot.
Ian Evans
Dosent need to kill to be effective nigger
Anthony Williams
Just keep those Tortillas flowing.
Lincoln Perez
5a at .01volt can kill you, but it won't because voltage is the driving factor. 3kV at 1 amp would be extremely lethal if both hands touched the fence
Joseph Stewart
Yes indeed, you guys have it correct.
It is a fence.
Rotate it horizontal and it becomes a grill.
When a Mexican with an acetylene torch gets a hold of it then it is scrap metal for recycling. Probably will ultimately be loaded onto a scrap metal barge in 4' - 8' sections depending on how much a linear foot weights and headed to China where they'll turn it into a battleship.
(you can use that on American Dad if you wish)
Joshua Lee
thats a pretty nice wall mexico is supposed to paying for. but instead tarriffs and straight up taxes have put on the american peoples dime.good job you gullible retards
Luke Reed
That's a fence, not a wall. I want what Israel has.
Tyler Perez
you already have record debt and israel a fucking fraction of the size of the us mexico border
Colton Hernandez
No. I want a wall. This is what a wall looks like.
USA socialism at it's finest but don't worry America will never be like Venezuela because that can't happen in America though it is happening right before the eyes of retarded Americans who all are sharing the same low IQ brain which by the way is shriveled up to the size of a Raisin.
Ryder Kelly
Prove it's fake Protip: you can't
Charles Reyes
If it was real it wouldn't require pushing by butt hurt pushers.
From inception to print to push know a scam when one presents itself.
William Flores
but they said its true!! just like how china says it has no drug dealers because they have the death penalty. why would they lie!?!??
Julian Parker
Yeah that's a nice wall to create lot's of division and conflict. Though still rather short and thin the divided are impressed.
They called that "fake news" because it doesn't fit their narrative.
Adam Torres
Good point there. Yes, I would support stronger enforcement without the kid gloves.
Setting minefields is a great idea, but as you know that won't happen. The best solution we have is a wall. Most won't get in, the few that do would not make too much a difference, not enough to change demographics or anything (which is already starting to happen because of this prolonged crisis). I say make a wall and wrap the tops of it in barbed wire or razor sharp mesh.
Jason Ross
well you definitely aint getting that for 5 billion and americans will pay for it because thats what tarriffs do
