미-멕시코 국경 장벽 건설공사 US-Mexico Border Wall Construction Underway (Learn More, Multi-Video)

US-Mexico Border Wall Construction Underway (Learn More, Multi-Video)

By Tammy Waitt - March 31, 2018

Construction of the border wall is underway, as several projects begin to take shape along the Southwest border.

One project will begin within days, according to Ronald Vitiello, U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s acting deputy commissioner.

Vitiello also announced wall projects in El Centro, San Diego, Santa Teresa and Rio Grande Valley.

Department of Homeland Security’s FY 2017 Enacted Appropriations provided funding to construct 35 gates to close gaps in the existing 55 miles of levee and border wall in the Rio Grande Valley Sector. Pictured is an area near McAllen, Texas, from September 2013. (Image courtesy of Donna Burton)

현재 미-멕시코 국경 장벽 공사가 진행 중이며, 

남서부 국경을 따라 몇개의 프로젝트가 구체화되기 시작했다.

미국 세관 및 국경 보호국 부위원장인 로널드 비티엘로에 의하면 

하나의 프로젝트가 수일내에 착수될 것으로 알려졌다.

또한 로널드 비티엘로는 장벽 프로젝트는 엘 센트로 샌디에고 

산타 테레사와 리오그란데 밸리가 될 것이라고 발표했다.  

황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터

Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator

“We’re on track to replace 20 miles of primary vehicle barrier in Santa Teresa, New Mexico,” he told reporters during a Friday afternoon news conference in Washington, D.C. “Ground breaking is scheduled for early April.”

The projects span the Southwest border from San Diego to the Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas.

(See remarks by CBP Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald D. Vitiello from the news conference in Washington, D.C. on Friday. Courtesy of LIVE ON-AIR NEWS and YouTube. Posted on Mar 30, 2018)

In San Diego, 14 miles of outdated steel plate barrier will be replaced with a bollard structure, hollow steel beams filled with concrete and steel rods.

The bollard design  provides agents with needed visibility into Mexico while improving protection.

Vietnam-era helicopter landing mats were used to construct the primary pedestrian barrier on San Diego’s border. Without the ability to see through it, the mats hinder agent safety. They’re also easily breached or scaled. Fiscal Year 2017 enacted appropriations provided funding to replace 14 miles of this legacy barrier with a more durable, higher, see through wall design and using steel bollards.

At least two miles of the border barrier in Calexico, California, is already being replaced with 30-foot bollard wall along with four miles of bollard wall in El Paso.

Closing gaps along the border in the Rio Grande Valley Sector is also part of the border wall project.

“We’re building 35 new gates along a stretch of 55 miles of existing border wall,” Vitiello said, which is tentatively scheduled to start in October 2018.

Along those areas, the barrier is further away from the Mexican border.

The gates close gaps in the wall while permitting the U.S. Border Patrol, emergency vehicles and landowners with property on the southern side of the barrier access through an automatic gate.

The Rio Grande Valley Sector will also benefit from 25 miles of new levee wall along the Rio Grande River and eight miles of bollard wall in Starr County, Texas.

When fully funded, about 1,000 of almost 2,000 of the U.S. border with Mexico will have border wall and other critical infrastructure.

(Learn More about the CBP. U.S. CBP has one of the most complex, far-reaching border security missions in the world. CBP is responsible for protecting our borders, while facilitating lawful international travel and trade. Every single day, more than a million people arrive at U.S. land, air and seaports of entry, along with six and a half billion dollars in imported goods. Courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and YouTube. Posted on Mar 21, 2018)

Vitiello thanked the Trump Administration for their leadership and commitment to border security.

U.S. CBP Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello briefs the media on border security and the status of border wall construction along the U.S.-Mexico border at U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington D.C., Friday. (Image courtesy of Glenn Fawcett)

U.S. CBP Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello briefs the media on border security and the status of border wall construction along the U.S.-Mexico border at U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington D.C., Friday. (Image courtesy of Glenn Fawcett)

He also recognized Congress for their $1.6 Billion “down payment” on the border wall system, which was included in the Consolidated Appropriation Act of 2018.

The funding provides for the construction of approximately 100 miles of new border wall.

Over the years, walls have proven their worth, said the acting commissioner.

“Our agents and officers have decades of experience and perspective, and they know our operational needs,” he said.

According to Vitiello, the U.S. Border Patrol, from Sector Chiefs to Border Patrol agents in the field, have been vocal about their need for effective barriers that impede and deny the entry of illegal aliens and contraband.

 “The truth is, walls work,” Acting Deputy Commissioner Vitiello said.

“The data show it, and our agents know it.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation’s borders at and between the official ports of entry.

Vietnam-era helicopter landing mats were used to construct the primary pedestrian barrier on San Diego’s border. Without the ability to see through it, the mats hinder agent safety. They’re also easily breached or scaled. Fiscal Year 2017 enacted appropriations provided funding to replace 14 miles of this legacy barrier with a more durable, higher, see through wall design and using steel bollards.

CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.

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