DHS Chief: U.S. Well on Track to Build ‘400-450 Miles’ of New Border ‘Capability’ by End of 2020 – By Susan Jones (CNS News) / April 2 2020
(CNSNews.com) – Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf says the United States is on track to build “400, 450 miles” of border wall/border “capability” by the end of the calendar year.
Wolf joined President Donald Trump at a news conference on Wednesday, and he spoke after Trump assured Americans, “very few people are coming into country right now. And as we complete, again, the wall, in addition to the 27,000 (Mexican) soldiers, it’s a very — it’s a very tough place to come into.”
Trump asked Wolf to “talk about how tight that southern border is right now.”
“We have–we continue to build miles of the wall every day,” Wolf said:
We’re up to over 150, I believe. We’re continuing to build new–new miles of wall. And a lot of folks ask about replacement wall or new miles? It’s a new capability on the Southwest border that we haven’t had before.
And so, whether you talk to the agents, the Border Patrol agents, they like that capability…They like that impedence and denial that it provides them. And it provides the ability for those agents to focus elsewhere on parts of the border that are very difficult to patrol so we can use our resources in a different way. And so, we see a lot of benefits from the border wall system.
And again, that includes not only the physical infrastructure but the cameras, the roads, the lightings, the fiber optic cables, and we’re looking forward and we’re still well on our track–well on our mark to meet 400, 450 miles by the end of the calendar year.
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