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| Here's where Trump could order up 234 miles of new border wall |
| 2019-02-17 |
| [Washington Examiner] President Trump's national emergency declaration to build hundreds more miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was short on specifics about where the steel structures would go. Trump's emergency order faces opposition in Congress. And even the president, in announcing the emergency declaration Friday, admitted it could bogged down in court fights for some time to come. In the meantime, though, Trump administration officials are looking to Homeland Security experts for guidance about where along the nearly 2,000-mile southern border it makes sense to add steel wall structures. "So it actually ends up being a complicated question," one official said Friday. "The men and women of the Border Patrol each year put together a border security improvement plan, which looks at all of the areas on the 2,000-mile border by risk. It takes into consideration smuggling routes, violent gangs, humanitarian issues, different types of terrain, and figures out where we need physical barriers the most. Based on that list, that is what we build against." The Department of Homeland Security is working on projects from money they were given in 2017 and 2018 appropriations. They will decide on where to spend Trump's $8 billion after Customs and Border Protection's annual report on the 2018 fiscal year, which ended on Sept. 30, 2018, is released. |
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