While everyone is busy with Donald Trump’s messes?
He has quietly sneaked back to do something Biden shut down…..
Building a ‘Trump’ ‘Smart Wall’against Mexico…..
Even Trump’s supportive Texas is NOT happy with the project’s pathway’s…
(He got Congress to waive restrictions in his ‘Big Beautiful Spending Bill )….
As IS typical with Trump?
He’s just going ahead with doing what he wants in his New York City Real Estate style….
Same as the White House East Wing ‘Gangster Move’…
The “Smart Wall” project calls for a wall in parts of rugged Texas desert that are experiencing historically low border crossings and a second wall across parts of California, Arizona and New Mexico that already have barriers from the first Trump administration, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection documents recently posted online.
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The aggressive pace — three new miles of wall a week — has alarmed advocates and national parks staff who say the construction will destroy pristine country, threaten endangered species, and cut off access to sacred Indigenous and archaeological sites. And it has sparked an unusual degree of bipartisan pushback, with sheriffs, conservative county judges, environmentalists and Texas state lawmakers lobbying Trump officials to change course.
“This is one of the largest public works projects in recent history for the U.S.,” said Eamon Harrity, wildlife program manager for Sky Island Alliance, a conservation nonprofit based in Tucson. “It’s fairly scary to think about the lack of oversight, the complete authority to build these walls without considering the environmental impacts.”…
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Building a physical wall along the 1,954 miles of land that divides the United States and Mexico has long been a pillar of President Donald Trump’s border security agenda. But during his first term federal officials devoted most of their time and resources to replacing close to 500 miles of existing infrastructure, largely on federal land that attracted a large number of border crossers. In all, only about 80 miles of new barrier were installed….
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Now, despite illegal crossings dropping to historic lows, DHS and the Defense Department plan to construct more than 1,350 miles of new border wall in the Southwest, according to a Post analysis of CBP data. In addition to more than 750 miles of primary wall and roughly 600 miles of secondary wall, CBP is planning for more than 500 miles of water barriers, such as buoys, the data shows. Cameras, lights and other surveillance technology would complement the physical barriers in many places, with some areas without walls covered by sensors.
The Trump administration has issued at least $22 billion in contracts to construction crews….
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The DHS waivers allow the wall to be built without first studying and minimizing these environmental harms, as is normally required…
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This month, CBP solicited public comment on the plan, with the window closing in April.
Andrew Mahaleris, a spokesman for Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, said in a statement that Abbott would prefer that the Trump administration deploy “technology to aid in securing the border” in isolated areas like Big Bend instead of a new wall. But Mahaleris added that Texas will support and assist the Trump administration in “deterring, arresting, detaining and deporting illegal immigrants.”
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