On Sunday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the construction of the border wall on America’s southern border.
The article reports:
The first border wall contract of President Donald Trump’s second term, valued at approximately $70 million, was announced Saturday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it awarded the contract, worth $70,285,846, to the Watsonville, California-based Granite Construction Co., mandating the company to erect “approximately seven miles of new border wall in Hidalgo County, Texas, within the U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector.”
The areas the new wall is expected to close off were “critical openings in the border wall that were left incomplete due to cancelled contracts during the Biden Administration,” according to CBP.
Many illegal migrants, human traffickers and drug smugglers exploited the RGV sector — a situation which necessitated completing the border wall there, CBP said.
The article concludes:
The Trump administration announced the completion of 450 miles of “new border wall system” in early January 2021, shortly before the Biden administration took office, the Department of Homeland Security noted at the time.
Former President Joe Biden terminated Trump’s 2019 declaration of a national emergency at the southern border and paused construction of the wall, dismissing walling off the entire stretch of the southern border as “not a serious policy solution” and the national emergency as “unwarranted”.
Missouri and Texas immediately sued the Biden administration, and Missouri obtained a court order compelling Biden to restore the $1.4 billion funding for the construction effort.
Congressional investigators later ruled the suspension of the border wall contract was legal — but the ruling drew objection from Republican lawmakers, according to CBS News.
Encounters at the southern border plummeted to lows not seen since the 1980s by the second month of Trump’s second term.
As President Trump said in his March 4th speech:
The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation. We must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.
We are moving toward a safer America.