5 Billion Dollars buys what on the Southern Border?

[eagle1462010]

This is what they are after........Too much misinformation on this subject.......Too many people saying that they haven't used the funds so far........

And too many people saying the specifics aren't out there..........Well......this document might unfog the Lies on this subject..........The Congress knows what they want built and where.


Walls Work
In FY18, Congress provided $1.375B for border wall construction which equates to approximately 84 miles of border wall in multiple locations across the Southwest border, including:

• $251M for a secondary border wall in the San Diego Sector
• $445M to construct a new levee wall system in the Rio Grande Valley Sector
• $196M to construct a new steel bollard wall system in Rio Grande Valley Sector
• $445M for a primary pedestrian wall in San Diego, El Centro, Yuma and Tucson Sectors

What’s next you might ask? When combined with the funds provided in FY 2017 and FY 2018, if funded at $5B in FY 2019 DHS expects to construct more than 330 miles of border wall in the U.S. Border Patrol’s highest priority locations across the Southwest border.

DHS is positioned to construct 215 miles of Border Patrol’s highest priority border wall miles including:

• ~5 miles in San Diego Sector in California
• ~14 miles in El Centro Sector in California
• ~27 miles in Yuma Sector in Arizona
• ~9 miles in El Paso Sector in New Mexico
• ~55 miles in Laredo Sector in Texas
• ~104 miles in Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas

The Bottom Line: Walls Work. When it comes to stopping drugs and illegal aliens from crossing our borders, border walls have proven to be extremely effective. Border security relies on a combination of border infrastructure, technology, personnel and partnerships with law enforcement at the state, local, tribal, and federal level. For example, when we installed a border wall in the Yuma Sector, we have seen border apprehensions decrease by 90 percent. In San Diego, we saw on Sunday that dilapidated, decades-old barriers are not sufficient for today’s threat and need to be removed so new – up to 30 foot wall sections can be completed.


They show some before and after pictures there.

 

[eagle1462010]

115th Congress Toolkit | U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Links to information........feel free to browse there.

References and Reports | U.S. Customs and Border Protection

 

[BlackFlag]

This is what they are after........Too much misinformation on this subject.......Too many people saying that they haven't used the funds so far........

And too many people saying the specifics aren't out there..........Well......this document might unfog the Lies on this subject..........The Congress knows what they want built and where.


Walls Work
In FY18, Congress provided $1.375B for border wall construction which equates to approximately 84 miles of border wall in multiple locations across the Southwest border, including:

• $251M for a secondary border wall in the San Diego Sector
• $445M to construct a new levee wall system in the Rio Grande Valley Sector
• $196M to construct a new steel bollard wall system in Rio Grande Valley Sector
• $445M for a primary pedestrian wall in San Diego, El Centro, Yuma and Tucson Sectors

What’s next you might ask? When combined with the funds provided in FY 2017 and FY 2018, if funded at $5B in FY 2019 DHS expects to construct more than 330 miles of border wall in the U.S. Border Patrol’s highest priority locations across the Southwest border.

DHS is positioned to construct 215 miles of Border Patrol’s highest priority border wall miles including:

• ~5 miles in San Diego Sector in California
• ~14 miles in El Centro Sector in California
• ~27 miles in Yuma Sector in Arizona
• ~9 miles in El Paso Sector in New Mexico
• ~55 miles in Laredo Sector in Texas
• ~104 miles in Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas

The Bottom Line: Walls Work. When it comes to stopping drugs and illegal aliens from crossing our borders, border walls have proven to be extremely effective. Border security relies on a combination of border infrastructure, technology, personnel and partnerships with law enforcement at the state, local, tribal, and federal level. For example, when we installed a border wall in the Yuma Sector, we have seen border apprehensions decrease by 90 percent. In San Diego, we saw on Sunday that dilapidated, decades-old barriers are not sufficient for today’s threat and need to be removed so new – up to 30 foot wall sections can be completed.


They show some before and after pictures there.

Cool. Trump should release the hostages and open up the government then.

 

[eagle1462010]

This is information on what the Congress and Fence Crowd spent in the last decade........Yeah......sure they want the border secure.......



Border Security: Progress and Challenges with the Use of Technology, Tactical Infrastructure, and Personnel to Secure the Southwest Border

CBP spent about $2.3 billion to deploy fencing from fiscal years 2007 through 2015 and constructed 654 miles of fencing by 2015. The Border Patrol has reported that border fencing supports agents' ability to respond to illicit cross-border activities by slowing the progress of illegal entrants. GAO reported in February 2017 that CBP was taking a number of steps in sustaining tactical infrastructure—such as fencing, roads, and lighting—along the southwest border. However, CBP has not developed metrics that systematically use data it collects to assess the contributions of border fencing to its mission, as GAO has recommended. CBP concurred with the recommendation and plans to develop metrics by January 2019. Further, CBP established the Border Wall System Program in response to a January 2017 executive order that called for the immediate construction of a southwest border wall. This program is intended to replace and add to existing barriers along the southwest border. In April 2017, DHS leadership gave CBP approval to procure barrier prototypes, which are intended to help inform new design standards for the border wall system.

 

[Timmy]

This is what they are after........Too much misinformation on this subject.......Too many people saying that they haven't used the funds so far........

And too many people saying the specifics aren't out there..........Well......this document might unfog the Lies on this subject..........The Congress knows what they want built and where.


Walls Work
In FY18, Congress provided $1.375B for border wall construction which equates to approximately 84 miles of border wall in multiple locations across the Southwest border, including:

• $251M for a secondary border wall in the San Diego Sector
• $445M to construct a new levee wall system in the Rio Grande Valley Sector
• $196M to construct a new steel bollard wall system in Rio Grande Valley Sector
• $445M for a primary pedestrian wall in San Diego, El Centro, Yuma and Tucson Sectors

What’s next you might ask? When combined with the funds provided in FY 2017 and FY 2018, if funded at $5B in FY 2019 DHS expects to construct more than 330 miles of border wall in the U.S. Border Patrol’s highest priority locations across the Southwest border.

DHS is positioned to construct 215 miles of Border Patrol’s highest priority border wall miles including:

• ~5 miles in San Diego Sector in California
• ~14 miles in El Centro Sector in California
• ~27 miles in Yuma Sector in Arizona
• ~9 miles in El Paso Sector in New Mexico
• ~55 miles in Laredo Sector in Texas
• ~104 miles in Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas

The Bottom Line: Walls Work. When it comes to stopping drugs and illegal aliens from crossing our borders, border walls have proven to be extremely effective. Border security relies on a combination of border infrastructure, technology, personnel and partnerships with law enforcement at the state, local, tribal, and federal level. For example, when we installed a border wall in the Yuma Sector, we have seen border apprehensions decrease by 90 percent. In San Diego, we saw on Sunday that dilapidated, decades-old barriers are not sufficient for today’s threat and need to be removed so new – up to 30 foot wall sections can be completed.


They show some before and after pictures there.

Yes walls are fine . For populated high traffic areas !

Not so much for midfield of nowhere wasteland.

 

[eagle1462010]

Secure Fence Act of 2006 - Wikipedia

Cost
Although the 2006 law authorized construction of a fence, Congress initially did not fully appropriate funds for it (see authorization-appropriation process). "Congress put aside $1.4 billion for the fence, but the whole cost, including maintenance, was pegged at $50 billion over 25 years, according to analyses at the time."[10]

A 2017 GAO report noted: "According to CBP, from fiscal year 2007 through 2015, it spent approximately $2.3 billion to deploy border fencing along the southwest border, and CBP will need to spend a substantial amount to sustain these investments over their lifetimes. CBP did not provide a current life-cycle costs estimate to maintain pedestrian and vehicle fencing, however, in 2009 CBP estimated that maintaining fencing would cost more than $1 billion over 20 years."[12]

Proposals for further expansion
The Republican Party's 2012 platform called upon the "double-layered fencing" to be built as originally called for in 2006 law (prior to the 2007 amendment).[20] The Washington Office on Latin America writes that the extremely high cost of complying with the Secure Fence Act's mandate—estimated at US$4.1 billion, or more than the Border Patrol's entire annual budget of US$3.55 billion—was the main reason that the fence was not fully built.[21]


They passed a law for votes in 2006. And haven't backed up what they preached. Haven't funded it properly for a decade. And didn't build it right. Already under Trump in 2 years they have spent more for improvements than what they spent all those years..........They didn't want the thing built.....it was fro show.......and didn't modernize enough for them to do their job.

 

[eagle1462010]

This is what they are after........Too much misinformation on this subject.......Too many people saying that they haven't used the funds so far........

And too many people saying the specifics aren't out there..........Well......this document might unfog the Lies on this subject..........The Congress knows what they want built and where.


Walls Work
In FY18, Congress provided $1.375B for border wall construction which equates to approximately 84 miles of border wall in multiple locations across the Southwest border, including:

• $251M for a secondary border wall in the San Diego Sector
• $445M to construct a new levee wall system in the Rio Grande Valley Sector
• $196M to construct a new steel bollard wall system in Rio Grande Valley Sector
• $445M for a primary pedestrian wall in San Diego, El Centro, Yuma and Tucson Sectors

What’s next you might ask? When combined with the funds provided in FY 2017 and FY 2018, if funded at $5B in FY 2019 DHS expects to construct more than 330 miles of border wall in the U.S. Border Patrol’s highest priority locations across the Southwest border.

DHS is positioned to construct 215 miles of Border Patrol’s highest priority border wall miles including:

• ~5 miles in San Diego Sector in California
• ~14 miles in El Centro Sector in California
• ~27 miles in Yuma Sector in Arizona
• ~9 miles in El Paso Sector in New Mexico
• ~55 miles in Laredo Sector in Texas
• ~104 miles in Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas

The Bottom Line: Walls Work. When it comes to stopping drugs and illegal aliens from crossing our borders, border walls have proven to be extremely effective. Border security relies on a combination of border infrastructure, technology, personnel and partnerships with law enforcement at the state, local, tribal, and federal level. For example, when we installed a border wall in the Yuma Sector, we have seen border apprehensions decrease by 90 percent. In San Diego, we saw on Sunday that dilapidated, decades-old barriers are not sufficient for today’s threat and need to be removed so new – up to 30 foot wall sections can be completed.


They show some before and after pictures there.

Yes walls are fine . For populated high traffic areas !

Not so much for midfield of nowhere wasteland.

The proposals are for the problem areas......Rio Grande being one of those problem areas where they have they apprehend more than any other sectors. That is where they want the improved Walls......and other high tech security measures.

 

[candycorn]

As soon as Mexico sends the check... have at it. What’s the hold up?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

“5 Billion Dollars buys what on the Southern Border?”

About three hundred miles of rightwing fear, ignorance, bigotry, and hate.