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As battle over Border Wall continues, about one mile goes up every day
2019-10-21
[LI] Besides already reducing the number of illegal border crossings, the new construction is also environmentally protective.

This week, the U.S. Senate voted to uphold President Donald Trump’s veto of Democrat-sponsored legislation reversing his use of military base project money to pay for the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
The 53-36 vote was well short of the two-thirds required to overturn the veto. The vote mirrored ones last month and in March in which a number of Republicans broke with Trump in defending lawmakers’ power of the purse. The military projects in question included base schools and target ranges.

In February, Trump declared the security situation along the border a national emergency. That decision enabled him to take up to $3.6 billion from such projects to finance wall construction beyond the miles that lawmakers have been willing to fund.

The funding is being well-used. The Pentagon reports that about one mile of construction is completed daily at the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  Your read my mind when I wrote it, I was thinking Kill zones, ambush sites, etc...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2019-10-21 13:46  

#6  With DOD involved they will build it to channel into kill boxes collection points. This is really good news.

There, now up to 10x20 Standards.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-10-21 11:26  

#5  With DOD involved they will build it to channel into collection points. This is really good news.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2019-10-21 11:20  

#4  "To hurry is not important. Not stopping is important."

Old Chinese Irish proverb.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-10-21 10:37  

#3  There are long inhospitable stretches away from cities where an actual wall is not necessary or can be done last
Posted by: Frank G   2019-10-21 10:32  

#2  That's a good pace. Border Patrol can manage to fill the gaps during the interim.
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-21 10:28  

#1  At a rate of a mile a day, that wall will take 8 years to finish assuming that he wants all of it done.
Posted by: BernardZ   2019-10-21 07:40  

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