Pentagon officials are saying that about a mile of border wall is going up per day, thanks to the efforts of the Trump administration. If that sounds ambitious, the goal is to reach 450 miles by the end of 2020.
“Right now we’re at a pace of about a mile a day. And we’ll see that continue to go up,” said Pentagon Chief Spokesman Jonathan Hoffman during a press conference on Thursday.
‘We’re building it at a breakneck speed’
When President Trump traveled to the Southwest recently to see what progress was being made on the border wall, he was pleased with what he observed.
“Now, the wall still, obviously, has a ways to go, but we’re building it at a breakneck speed,” Trump said Wednesday during a press conference in San Diego.
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GREAT progress on the Border Wall! pic.twitter.com/TvOYxgsBSv
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 19, 2019
Hoffman also said Thursday that the majority of the $2.5 billion in funds made available for the wall that came from military counter-drug money is being used accordingly. The $2.5 billion goes towards New Mexico, Arizona, and California specifically to reinforce the U.S.-Mexico border.
“That is going to build 129 miles of wall — all of that money is on contract as of — I think there’s $3 million left — and that’ll be by the end of next week. All of that money is on contract,” Hoffman said.
Hoffman also noted border projects will begin to draw from another money source, namely the $3.6 billion that Defense Secretary Mark Esper transferred from military construction for border projects in early September.
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Federal Government Surrendering 560 Acres for Wall
In conjunction with these plans, The Daily Caller reported Thursday that, “The Department of the Interior is temporarily surrendering roughly 560 acres of land that sits on the U.S.-Mexico border in order for the government to build more border wall.”
“Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced Wednesday that his department will transfer jurisdiction of approximately 560 acres of land to the Army for three years,” the Caller noted. “The Army will build about 70 miles of new barrier along the U.S. southern border on that land.”
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Trump’s Campaign Promise Kept So Far
Hoffman said things are moving according to schedule.
“Right now we’re getting the first of those contracts ready to go…we have property from DOI that needed to be transferred over for a number of those so we got to work through that process, and it’s going to take months to get that,” Hoffman said.
“But our goal is that by the end of next year, we will have completed over 450 miles of wall construction all-told, across the federal government,” he said.
In 2020, campaign promised made by President Donald Trump in 2016 will be brought up.
When it comes to “building the wall,” it looks like a promise kept so far.
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Completed Under. % of 450 % of 1000
Date Miles Construction Complete Complete
20191011 0073 0160 16.2% 7.3%
20191004 0071 0162 15.7% 7.1%
20190919 0066 14.6% 6.6%
20190909 0065 14.4% 6.5%
And just HOW will they be able to PROVE the kid is not Mexican?? These slicksters have all kinds of tricks up their sleeves!! – Yes – ALL chain migration needs to be ENDED! – And no matter WHERE they are from, it will STILL be a terrific DRAIN on our country, with all the FREEBIES they would get here – which is exactly what CAUSED this whole situation in the first place!! (This is freebies that we BORN Americans certainly don’t get – even we poor!) Government help should only be for born-American citizens – then the influx of caravans of illegals would slow down or stop!!
And just HOW will they be able to PROVE the kid is not Mexican?? These slicksters have all kinds of tricks up their sleeves!! – Yes – ALL chain migration needs to be ENDED! – And no matter WHERE they are from, it will STILL be a terrific DRAIN on our country, with all the FREEBIES they would get here – which is exactly what CAUSED this whole situation in the first place!! (This is freebies that we BORN Americans certainly don’t get – even we poor!) Government help should only be for born-American citizens – then the influx of caravans of illegals would slow down or stop!!
The Demokratik POTUS Candidates wasn’t OPEN BORDERS; therefore, I propose that we put them on the Mexican side of the border and let them attempt to OPEN the BORDER!
The Demokratik POTUS Candidates wasn’t OPEN BORDERS; therefore, I propose that we put them on the Mexican side of the border and let them attempt to OPEN the BORDER!
yep let them try to keep the child kid here it won’t work
A mile a day isn’t bad. I think it took 6 years to build the transcontinental railroad – and they didn’t have every anti-American Democrat in the country trying to stop them.
Depends on the nationality of the kid. If he is a Mexican he goes back. If not a Mexican then we are supposed to find a sponsor for him. The administration is trying to get that changed so no matter where the kid is from he goes home. Chain migration is another item the President has consistently talked about wanting ended. It is up to Congress. Call your representatives and senators every day. Call all of them every day. Send them emails. Send them letters.
Depends on the nationality of the kid. If he is a Mexican he goes back. If not a Mexican then we are supposed to find a sponsor for him. The administration is trying to get that changed so no matter where the kid is from he goes home. Chain migration is another item the President has consistently talked about wanting ended. It is up to Congress. Call your representatives and senators every day. Call all of them every day. Send them emails. Send them letters.
The Defense Department is actually defending us from invaders. Great News.
The Defense Department is actually defending us from invaders. Great News.
Build that walllll
THUNDER CLAP for the Pentagon!
THUNDER CLAP for the Pentagon!
Is this a gurantee of stopping illegals or is something else going to need to be done. Like jail cells being built at the border.
It looks to me that you could squeeze a kid between those rails? Then that kid is detained, then released to someone who will make it a citizen, then it will bring in all it’s relatives through chain migration.