Border Wall Test Drilling Begins In El Paso And The Rio Grande Valley

By Ben Caxton

valentineradionews.com

EL PASO, TX (Ben Caxton) — The United States Army Corps of Engineers has begun preliminary preparations for the construction of segments of a wall in several places along the border with Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday. Engineers are drilling and taking soil samples to determine what type of barriers would be most effective in the different types of geography along the border, said David Lapan, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security. El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas are two areas where the drilling and soil testing are taking place, along with Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and Calexico and San Diego in California. The agency has identified the San Diego area and the Rio Grande Valley as priority regions for new border walls. Despite repeated reports suggesting a wall is about to spring from the middle of the Rio Grande River across the Trans-Pecos, President Trump once again recently affirmed that likely as few a 700 miles of the 2,000-mile border actually requires a border wall. Trump told reporters last week that 2,000 miles of wall is not needed because there are a lot of natural barriers, like mountains. “violent and vicious” rivers, and some areas that are so remote that people don’t cross there.

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