Construction on 33 Miles of Border Wall in Texas is Starting

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Originally published at: Construction on 33 Miles of Border Wall in Texas is Starting | Infostormer.com

Obviously many of us have been unhappy with the progress that’s been made on the border wall but there are things that are happening. 33 miles of border wall in Texas is about to get going. This from money that was already approved by Congress last year.

AP:

The U.S. government is preparing to begin construction of more border walls and fencing in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, likely on federally owned land set aside as wildlife refuge property.

Heavy construction equipment was expected to arrive starting Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. A photo posted by the nonprofit National Butterfly Center shows an excavator parked next to its property.

Congress last March approved more than $600 million for 33 miles (53 kilometers) of new barriers in the Rio Grande Valley. While President Donald Trump and top Democrats remain in a standoff over Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion in border wall funding, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has pushed ahead with building what’s already funded.

That construction was often described as fencing, and the government funding bill that included construction was supported by some Democrats in the House and Senate. CBP refers to what it plans to build as a “border wall system.”

According to designs it released in September , CBP intends to build 25 miles (40 kilometers) of concrete walls to the height of the existing flood-control levee in Hidalgo County next to the Rio Grande, the river that forms the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. On top of the concrete walls, CBP will install 18-foot (5.5-meter) steel posts and clear a 150-foot (45-meter) enforcement zone in front.

There’s also been a number of improvements made to pre-existing barriers that weren’t very effective at stopping illegal entries. The military has also made further fortifications.

The GOP put out a short clip a little while ago featuring a compilation of local news clips highlighting the construction of new barriers and wall that’s gone up.

The Jewish media and the Democrats are trying to put out a narrative claiming that no wall has been built to try and undermine Trump’s base. And while I’m certainly not happy with the progress, it’s wrong to say that Trump has made zero progress on the wall.

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So, “zero-ish progress”?

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#3

Just 33. I wonder if Queen Ann will count this as progress in her tweets (she has given up on reporting wall progress).

How come 33? Are they Freemasons?

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#4

You know it, it’s more obvious everyday.

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Yeah. Fan me with a brick.

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Until I see a birds-eye view of a wall-like barrier with multi-tier defenses stretching to the horizon and beyond the 33 miles of feel-good wall is like a drop in the sand.

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If I were a neo-liberal globalist I would argue that we shouldn’t want to have a border wall like Israel’s because our relationship with Mexico is not the same as the relationship between that of Israel and its Arab neighbors. Rather, we should be encouraging travel and commerce with Mexico, not sealing ourselves off from them. But I’m not a neoliberal globalist, therefore I don’t want anything to do with those fucking greasers.

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i don’t blame Trump one bit for not getting our wall yet somehow this has become the measure of his tenure as president. he can’t build what he can’t pay for… there are a plethora of other more serious matters like NUCLEAR WAR where Trump has turned into a dishrag. he campaigned on ENDING ENLESS WARS and he has the power and authority to do that without congressional approval but he put MORE TROOPS in Afghanistan and teased his base about a pullout of troops from Syria that WILL NOT HAPPEN and we’re still in Iraq and Libya and God knows where else.

so if Trump supporters want to bitch about something, bitch about the things that Trump has total control over not something that he has to rely upon congress to help him do.

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