These numbers are virtually the same as the numbers available in 2012, indicating no measurable progress.
14 miles of Tertiary Pedestrian Fencing. 353 miles of Primary Pedestrian Fencing. Vehicle Fencing – that prohibits motorized vehicles from crossing. Customs and Border Protection maintains several types of “tactical infrastructure” (fencing, other physical barriers, and support structures such as observation towers) along the border. That legislation called for double-layered fencing along the border, augmented by manpower and technology, and directed the Secretary of Homeland security to construct “reinforced fencing along not fewer than 700 miles of the southwest border, in locations where fencing is deemed most practical and effective.” 2 How much of the required fencing was completed before Trump?Ĭurrently, U.S. Congress subsequently passed the Secure Fence Act of 2006. 1īy 2004, only nine miles of fencing were completed. IIRIRA called for the construction of a 14-mile, triple-layered fence along the boundary between San Diego and Tijuana. Recognizing the effectiveness of physical barriers as a means of border control, Congress first mandated the construction of a border fence in 1996 as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act ( IIRIRA). To learn more about President Trump’s other immigration priorities and accomplishments, check out our Trump Administration Immigration Accomplishments page and our Trump Tracker. Many countries maintain border walls or fences, including Israel, the UK (Northern Ireland), Spain, Greece, Hungary, and India. 
The estimated cost of the border wall cited most often is between $15 and $25 billion, which is a considerably smaller price tag than the $116 billion in taxpayer funds spent on illegal immigration in 2017. The Department of Defense ( DOD) has redirected funds from existing programs for the purposes of border wall construction under the authority of President Trump’s emergency declaration. Army Corps of Engineers ( USACE) began the process of prequalifying contractors for completion of $8 billion in construction and repair work. The majority of construction work to date has consisted of upgrades and repairs to existing border fencing and barriers. About 300 miles consists of anti-vehicle barriers. Presently, there is approximately 700 miles of fencing and barriers along the 1,954-mile border with Mexico. President Trump declared a national emergency in February 2019 in an attempt to jumpstart construction of a border wall. To date, progress on the border wall has been slow and limited due in large part to Congressional inaction and obstruction. You’re going to see loads of people waiting to get picked up to go do yard work and construction work and domestic work. I mean, come up to Westchester, go to Suffolk and Nassau counties, stand on the street corners in Brooklyn or the Bronx. Thus, in a 2003 interview with WABC radio in New York, she declared: “I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.”Ĭontinuing with what amounted to a backward rant against the foreign-born, she said, “People have to stop employing illegal immigrants. 
As the reputed frontrunner in the contest for the Democratic Party’s 2008 presidential nomination, she is making a direct appeal to the same anti-immigrant sentiments that are being stoked by the right wing of the Republican Party. In Hillary Clinton’s case, the vote has a deeper significance.
According to some estimates, the cost of such a massive project would reach $7 billion. The bill calls for the erection of 700 miles of fortified fencing stretching across the entire length of Arizona’s frontier with Mexico as well as portions of the southern borders of California, New Mexico and Texas. Last Friday, however, she did exactly that, joining Senate Republicans and the majority of her Democratic colleagues in voting for an ignominious piece of legislation known as the “Secure Fence Act of 2006.” Let’s go back to 2006: Why Hillary Clinton voted for the anti-immigrant wall
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