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packman

(16,296 posts)
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 10:42 AM Jul 2019

Typical Trump "success" - not 1 mile built in 30 months

The Trump administration has not installed a single mile of new wall in a previously fenceless part of the U.S.-Mexico border in the 30 months since President Trump assumed office, despite his campaign promise to construct a “big beautiful wall.”

In a statement last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency overseeing border barrier construction, confirmed that all the fencing completed since Trump took office is "in place of dilapidated designs" because the existing fence was in need of replacement

... In Trump’s two and a half years in office, his administration has installed an average 1.7 miles of barrier per month, and none of it in areas that did not previously have some sort of barrier. A total 205 miles of new and replacement barrier has been funded in the two and a half years since Trump took office.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-has-not-built-a-single-mile-of-new-border-fence-after-30-months-in-office

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Typical Trump "success" - not 1 mile built in 30 months (Original Post) packman Jul 2019 OP
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Is any of that beautiful see through wall? ProudLib72 Jul 2019 #2
He probably paid for a contractor like himself already to do it. Captain Zero Jul 2019 #3

Response to packman (Original post)

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
2. Is any of that beautiful see through wall?
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 11:18 AM
Jul 2019

I guess the parts that still don't have a wall are see through.

Captain Zero

(6,806 posts)
3. He probably paid for a contractor like himself already to do it.
Sat Jul 20, 2019, 12:28 PM
Jul 2019

They took the money already. we will never see a wall, money probably went for a feasibility study.

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