The entire world has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. But don’t think that this going to slow down President Trump’s wall along the US-Mexico border one bit.
In mid-March, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that they would construct over 150 miles of the wall in Arizona, California, and New Mexico. This is in addition to work on the wall that is continuing at more than 15 other sites.
“Wall construction has not been affected [by the coronavirus],” a CBP spokesman said in a report that was published by The Guardian.
President Trump declared a national emergency in February 2019 after encountering resistance from House Democrats over his planned wall, which was his chief campaign promise in 2016. This allowed the administration to divert funds from the US Department of Defense to fund the project, which has been deemed essential for the protection of American workers and of its ordinary citizens from crime committed by illegal immigrants.
The funds, totaling approximately $18.5 billion, are being used to build 450 to 500 miles of the wall by the end of this year. The project is being overseen by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Construction workers involved in the project are staying at local hotels and motels, working together in teams and car-pooling on the way to work and back each day. Some of them are being paid higher salaries than usual so that they can work nights to ensure that the project is completed on time.
Border protection has now become more important than ever because of the coronavirus outbreak, with illegal immigrants feared to be bringing the virus with them when they cross into the US. In response, the border has been closed to all but essential traffic, and illegals who are caught trying to enter the US are being returned immediately to Mexico rather than being detained. This is to minimize the risk to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, as well as to the immigrants themselves, who would be forced to spend long periods of time in closed quarters together.
It is to be hoped that this level of concern with completing the wall will be maintained even after the coronavirus crisis has passed. American lives are at stake, being threatened both by the coronavirus as well as by illegal immigrants.
BEST THING TO DO IS NOTIFY ALL ILLEGALS THEY WILL BE SHOT ON SITE IF THEY TRY TO ENTER ILLEGALLY…..
NO EXCEPTIONS….PERIOD…..!!!!!!!!!!!!
SPREADING THIS DISEASE IS TANTAMOUNT TO COMMITTING MURDER……
I sure hope the wall continues to completion because I am so tired of people breaking the law coming into our country and then not learning the law or the constitution because they have no intention of upholding either!
Stealing and killing and living off of taxpayers money!
As for as I am concerned Obama and the Democrats owe the American people an apology!!!
The resources used to build this wall could be better used in the fight against the Corona virus. Furthermore, determined Mexicans have already dug tunnels under the wall to get into the U.S. Helping to fix the source of these migrations would be a better choice than building this stupid wall. Poverty and income disparity in Latin American countries is rampant. What do you expect people to do when they are desperate? Americans will ultimately feel this desperation for themselves if the broken capitalistic system in the U.S. isn’t dealt with.
The “broken capitalistic system” in the U.S. is working just fine. If we were under a lesser system (or a lesser leader, frankly) we wouldn’t have had the money for the wall, let alone the massive measures taken to combat the virus. Funds against the virus are in the trillions, with a T; funds for the wall are in the billions, with a B, that being on the order of 1/1000th of the money spent against the virus. For my $100 bill (which it is, as a taxpayer), the government is more than welcome to spend that 10 cents or so being put into protecting tax-paying LEGAL citizens of the U.S. while they spend the other $99+ on covid-19.
So far as tunnels, I’d rather have them than freeways. Again, a matter of small percentages, getting through. Latin Americans aren’t near so desperate as you bleeding hearts believe, either; but like any intelligent people they know a Free Ride when it’s being passed out by “progressive” (puke!) politicians just a walk across the border away.
Demorrhoids aren’t real good at math, are they…
Now is the time to start up new manufacturing plants in Central America . Since there will be large exit from China , give the people from Central America jobs and they will stay in there own country