Current development of Trump’s Border Wall in New Mexico

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The latest installment of the U.S President Donald Trump’s border wall started construction last week. The EI Paso Sector Chief Aaron Hull said that bollards filled with concrete and its height is 18 feet, and goes 6 feet underground with 2 feet concrete on top of that. Hull added that this wall is unable to stop everybody. The latest bollard style wall is one of 3 installments going up current year along the Mexican border with the United States. The installment of a 20-mile section would replace a vehicle barrier in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. He added that a similar 2-mile project is under construction in Calexico, California. The 3^rd project will be started as scheduled during mid of this year in San Diego.

To strengthen the nation’s border wall, a new 30-foot fence is under construction in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The project, which is being paid for out of the operating budget of the Army Corp of Engineers, costs $73 million. The president’s new budget appropriates $1.6 billion for border security, which is enough officials say for roughly 100 miles of additional fencing. To stop Trump from calling the new infrastructure a “wall,” Congress stipulated the fence design cannot resemble any of the wall prototypes now on display in San Diego. Eight prototypes of the border wall were completed in San Diego in October. The prototypes — four made of concrete and four of see-through steel — are about 30 feet high, much taller than existing barriers.