Contributing Articles/Courtesy US Customs Border Security
Washington DC – US Customs and Border Patrol awarded another contract For the construction of the border wall, the second of President Trump’s second term will be built at Fisher Sand & Gravel for $309,463,000, and approximately 27 miles of new border wall in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, within the Tucson sector of the US Border Patrol. The contract is funded by CBP’s 2021 funding and closes a key opening in the border wall that was left incomplete due to a contract cancelled during the Biden administration.
The Tucson sector is a highly experienced and highly illegal attempts to exercise, in which numerous individuals and drugs are illegally smuggled, are illegally smuggled. The construction of a boundary wall in Tucson will support the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to disrupt and reject drug and human smuggling activities of illegal border crossings and cross-border criminal organizations.
DHS secretary Kristi Noem tracks her commitment to secure the border with a new exemption for the construction of the border wall, ensuring the rapid construction of a new border wall up to about 17 miles in Texas, located within USBP’s Rio Grande Valley sector. This is the fifth exemption signed by Secretary Noam for the construction of the border wall, indicating DHS’s continued commitment to ensuring the rapid construction of physical barriers needed to secure the southern border of the United States.
Secretary exemption authorities allow DHS to abandon environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act, to ensure the rapid construction of physical barriers and roads, thereby minimizing the risk of administrative delays. Projects implemented under the exemption are important measures to secure southern borders and strengthen our commitment to border security. The exemption covers the RGV 04/10/02 Wall Project (up to approximately 8 miles, currently awarded, up to 8 miles) funded by CBP’s 2021 Approval Budget. The exemption was issued under section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Liability Act of 1996.
