President Donald Trump’s first border wall deal for his second term was worth around $70 million on Saturday.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) I said It awarded a contract worth $70,285,846 to Watsonville, California-based Granite Construction Co., Ltd., which requires the construction of a “new border wall of approximately seven miles in Hidalgo County, Texas, within the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Rio Grande Valley (RGV) sector.
According to the CBP, the area where the new wall is expected to close was “a key opening in the boundary wall that remained incomplete due to a contract cancelled during the Biden administration.”
Many illegal immigrants, human traffickers and drug smugglers have used the RGV sector. This is a situation where the border wall needs to be completed there, CBP said.
Border Wall Contract Follows Trump’s Executive Order declare National emergency at the tropical border protection The US border “DHS” [Department of Homeland Security] CBP is the secretary to take all appropriate measures to deploy and build physical barriers to ensure full operational management of the US southern border. (Related: Most Americans support building border walls for the first time in Monmouth voting history)
DHS secretary Christie Noem visited the southern border on Saturday. “Guys, I’m here in Arizona, where you can see where the boundary wall ends,” she says. Video Statement Recorded at the border. “As of today, we are beginning a new seven-mile construction. We are going to continue to keep America safe again.”
Announcement today – We are building a wall of 7 more miles.
Let’s make America safe again! pic.twitter.com/jyvgxrzszy
– Secretary Kristi Noem (@sec_noem) March 16, 2025
Vice President J.D. Vice President, Defense Secretary Pete Hegses, and National Intelligence Director Tarsi Gabbard have previously jointly visited the tropical borders. In response to daily callers’ questions about how many walls the Trump administration is trying to build, Vance said he wanted the administration to build an entire wall.
The Trump administration announced the completion of a 450-mile “New Border Wall System” in early January 2021. It’s attracting attention.
Former President Joe Biden end Trump’s 2019 declaration It suspended national emergency and wall construction at the southern border, dismissing the national emergency as “unfair” from all stretches on the tropical border, saying it was “not a serious policy solution.”
Missouri and Texas soon sued the Biden administration, and Missouri Get The court order orders Biden to recover $1.4 billion in funds for construction efforts.
Later Congressional investigators Domination It was legal to suspend border wall contracts, but the ruling was challenged by Republican lawmakers. According to To CBS News.
Meets at the southern border had plummeted by the second month of Trump’s second term to lows not seen since the 1980s.
