
Border Wall Construction Restarts in California and Texas
Construction restarted on a border wall near the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry on the U.S.-Mexico border in California on Jan. 22, followed by border wall construction and reinforcement work beginning near El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 31.
In California, new wall sections with "anti-climb" features are being built in areas that either never had a barrier or only had older fencing. They are being built using 2018 border wall appropriations and contracts held by contractor Fisher Sand & Gravel. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also sent personnel to the area around Friendship Park near the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry where new wall sections have been under construction for nearly two weeks.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it would complete the project using only fiscal 2018 funding as other funds from 2021 and 2022 were not specified for the California portions of the wall.
President Trump’s national emergency declaration "...directs the Dept. of Homeland Security to take all appropriate action to deploy and construct temporary and permanent physical barriers to ensure complete operational control of the southern border of the United States,” according to CBP.
Five hundred U.S. Marines and sailors have also been deployed from Camp Pendleton to the southern border to assist in enforcement operations there. In Texas, an estimated 1,500 troops have already arrived at Fort Bliss and will be deployed across the border region from El Paso to Sunland Park, N.M., to join Border Patrol efforts.
New sections of the federal border wall in the El Paso sector started construction in the last days of January using 2020 funds that the Biden administration had confirmed would be used for a border wall in 2023 but had not started construction on yet.
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