During an interview with Fox News on Monday, Trump campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley said the border wall is 'one of the greatest achievements this president has had.
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection aim to complete 450 miles of border wall before the inauguration.on Monday, Trump campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley said the border wall is"one of the greatest achievements this president has had, [and] is making our country a safer place.The International Boundary and Water Commission estimates that the U.S.-Mexican border is about 1,954 miles long. The number often varies because the twisting Rio Grande River makes it difficult to get an exact length.
By the end of last October, the White House celebrated reaching 400 miles of new wall system and the CBP noted that approximately 10 miles of new wall was being constructed per week. The Congressional Research Service reported that the new barriers constructed were different from the pedestrian and vehicle fencing they are replacing. According to the report, Trump's refurbishments pose"a formidable barrier, but it is not the high, thick masonry structure that most dictionaries term a 'wall.'"
According to a GAO analysis issued in November, as of July 2020, the federal government had acquired 135 tracts of privately owned land but was still working to acquire 991 additional tracts, almost all of them in the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo areas in South Texas. GAO also reported that 107 miles of new border wall is planned to be built in the Rio Grande Valley, but Nicol said there is a total of 6 or 7 miles up scattered around.
Morgan insisted that ending wall construction would be a"waste of taxpayer money" that would amount to"probably billions of dollars" when speaking to reporters earlier this week.
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