U.S. Border Chief unveils plans for border wall funding

[longknife]

Phooey on Chuckie and Nancy. He says they’ve got the $5 billion to build defenses along our southern border.

“What we’re talking about is not just a dumb barrier,” he said. “We’re talking about sensors, cameras, lighting, access roads for our agents, a system that helps us secure that area of the border. That’s what we were asking Congress.”

Commissioner McAleenan said border security will take a multi-faceted approach, including new technology, to stop the flow of illegal immigration and drugs from entering the U.S.

“When you’re talking about 60,000 people flowing across the border, when you’re talking about drug smuggling increasing between ports of entry, hard narcotics, synthetic opioids, methamphetamine coming — 25 percent increase the — last year. We’ve seen it increase again the first three months of this year. We need a barrier to help us stop that,” he said.

Commissioner McAleenan also confirmed officials have completed construction of 35 miles of the wall, with 300 million dollars from the 2017 fiscal budget.


He doesn’t say where it’s coming from but I wouldn’t surprise me to learn the funding is somewhere in the federal slush pile.


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[rightwinger]

The way it always should have been done

Fences in the middle of nowhere are of little value

 

[BlackFlag]

Commissioner McAleenan also confirmed officials have completed construction of 35 miles of the wall, with 300 million dollars from the 2017 fiscal budget.

That would put the cost of 2,000 miles of wall at approaching $200 billion. And that's just dinky fence or slats, not expensive dotard wall.