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North -American customs and border protection awarded the first border wall contract From the second term of President Donald Trump to the construction of granites, according to a statement of March 15.
As part of the work of $ 70 million, the Watsonville firm in California will build approximately 7 miles of new border barriers in Hidalgo County, Texas, in the United States Border Patrol sector. The project “will close critical openings on the border wall” and will support the efforts of the National Security Department to stop the steps of illegal borders and smuggling, according to the statement. It is financed by the exercise of the CBP 2021 money.
The United States-Memical Wall has been a signature problem for Trump, and so does it increased efforts to arrest and deport Unauthorized people to be in the United States since they took office.
DHS works to implement the Executive Orders of January 20 Trump titled ”Ensuring our borders“And”Declaring a national emergency on the southern United States border“, Directed by the Secretary of Defense to” take all appropriate actions “to build physical barriers to ensure complete operational control of the southern border, according to the release.
About 458 miles of fencing and others Barriers were built in various states Throughout the southern border of almost 2,000 miles of the first Trump term, according to Politifact analysis on CBP data. Most of this work was to update or replace existing barriers; The number of new primary border barriers that the federal government built 52 miles.
Former President Joe Biden pledged to stop the effort when he took office but later Construction of fast tracking border walls South of Texas, the wall lagoons were filled near Yuma, Arizona, and passed billions of millions to achieve and Build border stations. The Governor of Texas Greg Abbott also continued Build about 50 miles of wall During Biden’s years, according to the Texas Tribune.
This Hydalgo County project is not the first border wall work in Grandite. The company landed numerous contracts over the years to build border fences, included in Nogales, Arizona; Imperial, California; and The Paso, TexasAccording to local reports.
