It's Official: trump's Border Wall Was A Complete Failure

Althea

Althea

Althea told me...
And an exaggeration. He never built half of what he touts as his border wall accomplishment. He was successful in slashing money meant for the Defense Dept, though.

As with everything trump, this was a complete and utter failure. Save for the money funnelled to cronies.


[h=3]How much wall did Trump build?[/h]
[FONT=&quot]At a recent CNN town hall, former President Donald Trump claimed that his administration finished building a wall along the 1,954-mile border separating the U.S. and Mexico. But according to a Customs and Border Protection report written two days after Trump left office in 2021, about 458 miles of the wall were completed under his administration, with another 280 miles identified for construction but never finished. Of those 458 miles, just 52 covered sections of the border that hadn't previously had a barrier.

The project cost an estimated $15 billion, with the money coming from Department of Defense funds and appropriations from Congress. Combined with fencing that pre-dated Trump's presidency, about 700 miles — mostly along public land in Arizona and New Mexico — now have a barrier.

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[h=3]Is the new wall effective?[/h]
[FONT=&quot]It does not seem to be deterring migrants from coming to or crossing the border. The number of crossings, as measured by apprehensions at the border, rose steeply during Trump's term, more than doubling from 2018 to 2019.

Professional smugglers and determined migrants, however, have found myriad ways to get through and over the wall.[/FONT]
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[h=3]How do they do that?[/h]
[FONT=&quot]Saws and other inexpensive power tools were used to cut holes in the wall more than 3,200 times between 2019 and 2021, costing the government $2.6 million in repairs. From October 2021 to September 2022, the wall was breached 4,101 times, an average of about 11 breaches per day. Some smugglers have essentially created "doors" in the wall by disguising the holes they created in the bollards with tinted putty that they remove every time they want to help people cross. Smugglers have also dug tunnels or climbed over the barrier on ladders, or crossed at one of the wall's many gaps


Contractors working on the wall built new roads to reach remote border areas; those paths now guide migrants who make it across. "There are so many access roads that it's possible for someone to walk right up to places where the wall ends and have someone just pick them up," said conservationist Valer Clark, who is trying to preserve land along the border.

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[h=3]The environmental damage[/h]
[FONT=&quot]To build his wall, Trump had to bulldoze, dig and tear through land along the border, waiv*ing over 50 environmental laws and regulations. The damage drew strong protests from envi*ronmentalists, native tribes and private land* owners. Construction damaged streams and led to vegetation removal, creating rapid erosion. Near Arizona's San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, flash floods tore some of the wall's floodgates from their hinges last year. Rivers that flow south across the border into Mexico are now contaminated with rust from the wall, killing native fish[/FONT]
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At a recent CNN town hall, former President Donald Trump claimed that his administration finished building a wall along the 1,954-mile border separating the U.S. and Mexico. But according to a Customs and Border Protection report written two days after Trump left office in 2021, about 458 miles of the wall were completed under his administration, with another 280 miles identified for construction but never finished. Of those 458 miles, just 52 covered sections of the border that hadn't previously had a barrier.
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(from the OP above)

The highlighted section is really disingenuous dissembling on the part of CNN.

Here, for example was the previous barrier along the US - Mexico border near Lukeville Arizona and the Organ Pipe National Monument:

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In the background you can see a road on the Mexico side of the border. That is Mexico's national highway 2. The barrier you see only prevented vehicles from crossing into the US in that region.

This is what replaced it.

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Obviously, that is a far more substantial barrier than the previous one, and this one could be characterized as a wall, while the previous could not be.
 
Althea said:
And an exaggeration. He never built half of what he touts as his border wall accomplishment. He was successful in slashing money meant for the Defense Dept, though.

As with everything trump, this was a complete and utter failure. Save for the money funnelled to cronies.


[h=3]How much wall did Trump build?[/h]

[h=3]Is the new wall effective?[/h]

[h=3]How do they do that?[/h]

[h=3]The environmental damage[/h]
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It was never meant to be built. It was a symbol of racism, isolationism and hate - in other words: all that today's Republican advocates. It's the new, "heil hitler".
 
T. A. Gardner said:
(from the OP above)

The highlighted section is really disingenuous dissembling on the part of CNN.

Here, for example was the previous barrier along the US - Mexico border near Lukeville Arizona and the Organ Pipe National Monument:

image


In the background you can see a road on the Mexico side of the border. That is Mexico's national highway 2. The barrier you see only prevented vehicles from crossing into the US in that region.

This is what replaced it.

maxresdefault.jpg


Obviously, that is a far more substantial barrier than the previous one, and this one could be characterized as a wall, while the previous could not be.
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Also characterized as a temporary impairment that is easily remedied after a quick trip to Home Depot and $200.
 
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