The construction was restarted on a border wall near the Port of Entrance of the land of San Ysidro on the American-Mexico border in California on January 22, followed by the construction of the border wall and the reinforcement work. They started near El Paso, Texas, on January 31.
President Donald Trump said that during his presidential campaign he would end the construction of a border wall that began during the first term. This new work, however, uses appropriate funds and contracts awarded during its first administration.
In California, new wall sections are being built with “anti-climb” functions in areas that never had barrier or only older fences. It is being built through appropriations and contracts of the contractor Fisher Sand & Gravel with the contractor Fisher Sand & Gravel. The United States Army Engineers also sent staff to the area around the Friendship Park near the Port of Land Entrance of San Ysidro, where the new wall sections have been under construction for almost Two weeks.
U.S. Customs and border protection said that it would complete the project with only 2018 tax financing, as other collections of 2021 and 2022 were not specified for the portions of California on the wall.
President Trump’s National Emergency Declaration “… Directed by the National Security Department to take all appropriate actions to deploy and build temporary and permanent physical barriers to ensure full operational control of the Southern United States” border ” , according to CBP.
“CBP is working to close numerous lagoons in the border barrier existing in the United States Border Patrol sector,” added the spokesman. “These projects are in several stages of planning and construction are expected to begin from March 2025”.
Five -Old Seafood and North Sailors -Americans have also been deployed from Camp Pendleton to the southern border to help the execution operations. In Texas, it is estimated that 1,500 soldiers have already arrived in Fort Bliss and will be deployed in the border region from El Paso to Sunland Park, NM, to unite to the efforts of border patrol. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the immigration ZAR Tom Homan arrived at Sunland Park on February 3 to inspect the operations.
The new sections of the federal border wall in the El Paso sector began construction in the last days of January through the 2020 funds that the Biden administration had confirmed would be used for a border wall by 2023, but it had not yet begun at Build -SE. While Fisher also maintains the federal contract of the 2020 border wall, it is unknown what contractors work in the sections that are built near the passage and the crews of the body also deployed in the area with the troops of Fort Bliss.
Any other federal funding for the construction of a border wall is not approaching as it would require new Congress legislation.
The border status seeks refund
Texas Governor, Greg Abbott (R), has also asked Congress to reimburse $ 11 billion, so he says it would cover both the construction of a separate state border wall, the acquisition of land measures and Execution the state made during Biden’s years.
In a letter to the Congressional leaders, the abbot details of the state’s expenses have assumed since 2020, including $ 4.75 million for “border wall and other border barrier funding, local border security grants In counties and cities, processing of criminal arrests and the relocation of migrants outside of small cities in Texas, “and $ 3.62 billion for” staff costs for the deployment of National Guard soldiers to build border barriers, ensuring that the border and build barriers and lush migrants who entered illegally. “
The Texas Facility Commission approved five contracting items in September 2023 for the Texas border infrastructure program. These included non -acceleration contracts of $ 85 million in Posillico Civil Inc.; $ 82 million in Southwest Valley Contractors Co., a unit of Kiewit Corp.; $ 69 million to Fisher Sand and Gravel Co .; and $ 150 million in BFBC in Texas, a Barnard Construction Unit. All companies had previously received federal construction contracts from the border wall. Fisher also built private wall sections with separately funding in Texas.
The Governor’s office did not immediately answer questions about what a refund could mean for contractors who did ongoing work on the border wall of the State or on the federal wall, such as if Texas would convert the border wall and put it on the Federal government and these contracts. would be transferred from the state to a federal agency such as the Corps of Engineers or CBP.
