Despite everything the Democrats have tried to do to stop it, the border wall is going up.
There’s currently a new section going up in southern Texas.
The Associated Press reports:
Border wall construction advances in South Texas
Work crews in South Texas are laying steel along the U.S.-Mexico border in preparation for the installation of new segments of border wall.
The U.S. Border Patrol said workers were installing steel rebar at a site south of Donna, a small city in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
The rebar will reinforce concrete panels that will in turn be topped with 18-foot (5.5-meter) steel bollards. Crews will also clear vegetation 150 feet (45 meters) in front of the wall.
Environmental advocates and opponents of the wall have warned that construction will destroy critical habitat and require the seizure of land from potentially hundreds of people in South Texas.
FOX News has more:
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First construction of brand-new border wall in Texas begins
Construction on a new border wall in Texas where none previously existed has begun along the Rio Grande river, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed to Fox News on Friday.
While 75 miles of wall has already been built under the Trump administration, until now all of those structures replaced existing ones such as vehicle barriers or dilapidated fences, which were ineffective before being replaced, according to the agency.
The brand-new wall is under construction southeast of McAllen in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley sector, which sees the most illegal crossings of any border sector, with more than 325,000 people apprehended there through August this year, according to CBP.
“Rio Grande Valley is by far our busiest sector, so getting this new wall system capability down there for [the agents] is truly a game-changer,” a CBP spokesman said. “Just last week, the agents on the frontlines told us the wall is something they need.”
The job is getting done.
"Since the border wall system was completed local business and commerce is thriving, as areas once considered dangerous are now secure
"Overall crime has been significantly reduced thus making our community a safer place to live and work"#BuildThatWallpic.twitter.com/uNZrtuBv43
— Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) October 26, 2019
No wonder Democrats would rather talk about impeachment.
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