The Border Wall continues to expand and strengthen along the International Boundary with Mexico. The Trump Administration is sealing critical gaps in the wall that remained unfinished after President Biden canceled earlier contracts.
The federal government is using $309,463,000 that went unspent in 2021 to build about 27 miles of new border wall in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, within the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector.
The Department of Homeland Security is also issuing environmental law waivers to speed up construction elsewhere, including 17 miles of new border wall in Texas within the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector.
Known gaps within the Border Wall system are also being sealed. A 350-foot opening, known as “Smugglers Gulch” in San Diego, California, was recently closed, and a patrol road was added to the area to enable the Border Patrol to monitor the known smuggling point better.
Across other areas of the San Diego Border Patrol Sector, U.S. soldiers have been reinforcing existing Border Wall sections by adding concertina wire to deter illegal aliens from climbing the barrier.
Marines with the US Northern Command’s Joint Task Force Southern Border have also been working to seal culverts and other vulnerable spots in the Border Wall System to stop human smugglers from using them to bring illegal aliens into the country.
US Army Stryker crews are also regularly patrolling along the border wall in Arizona and other areas, giving the US Border Patrol extra eyes and ears while deterring illegal crossing attempts with their visible, intimidating presence.
In Arizona, crews are installing 30-foot border wall panels near Yuma, strengthening the barrier with a mix of steel bollard panels and gates. These areas, once vulnerable, are now being reinforced to improve security and block unauthorized crossings.
In El Paso, Texas, construction teams are setting 100 feet of steel panels that will form part of a new seven-mile stretch of the Border Wall. Meanwhile, elsewhere along the Texas-Mexico border, soldiers assigned to Operation Lone Star are fortifying existing barriers to stop cartel-linked human smugglers from entering the state.
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