Donald Trump’s proposed border wall is still in limbo, but at least there’s this story. A small two mile section of the border in California is getting outfitted with a 30-foot-high wall.
WSJ:
Along a dusty stretch of border, flanked by an outlet mall and farmland, a giant crane hoisted a 30-foot-high section of steel barrier and dropped it into a shallow trench last Wednesday.
The structure was one of the first new pieces of a border wall put in place since the start of a lengthy construction project in February just west of the border crossing in downtown Calexico, a small, mostly Hispanic farming town.
The construction isn’t part of President Donald Trump’s long-promised wall with Mexico. Instead, the barrier is a replacement project first proposed by the U.S. Border Patrol in 2009 under the Obama administration, roughly a decade after the original fencing went up, according to David Kim, the Border Patrol’s assistant chief patrol agent in the area.
By mid-October, roughly 2 miles in the Border Patrol’s El Centro sector, which stretches for about half of the Mexican border in California, will have the new, see-through barrier.
Mr. Kim said the roughly $18 million project was funded by Congress last year. He said the project happens to be getting under way in the midst of Mr. Trump’s continuing effort to build a wall along the Mexican border. “We want to make sure everyone knows what it is and what it isn’t,” Mr. Kim said.
I guess this is a start, but there’s over 2,000 miles of border that needs to be protected.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look as if any deal is going to get struck with Congress to build the border wall. Maybe I’ll be surprised, but it doesn’t look good right now.
Republicans are probably going to need to expand their majorities in both the Senate and in the House in order to get the border wall project fully funded. Of course, nobody can predict what is going to happen in the upcoming elections. We should do whatever we can to oppose as many of these Communist Democrats as possible. Yeah, many of these Republicans suck, but they can at least be molded or convinced to go along with the populist aspects of Trump’s agenda.
