Video shows miles of newly constructed Mexico border wall

US Customs and Border Protection has released drone video that shows miles of a “new border wall system” on Arizona’s porous boundary with Mexico. “Construction crews continue work on the new border wall system along the SW border near San Luis, AZ. In partnership with @USACEHQ, CBP has constructed over 60 miles of new border wall system along the SW border since 2017 and expects to complete 450 miles by the end of 2020,” CBP said in a tweet. The post included the 55-second video, which shows a new, taller barrier that had replaced a 10-foot fence that asylum seekers and illegal immigrants were easily able to breach. Crews in Arizona and New Mexico continued construction of taller border fencing funded through a national emergency declaration by President Trump. In Arizona, crews were installing 30-foot steel fencing to replace older barriers next to a border crossing known as Lukeville Port of Entry. The work on his hallmark campaign promise involves mostly replacement fencing along a 46-mile stretch of desert west of Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and on two miles of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona. At the New Mexico site, about 20 workers recently placed rebar frames for concrete footers along the path of the wall. A 50-foot crane towered over the site, standing out on the treeless brushland and cracked washes that stretch for miles in every direction. Workers broke ground between Columbus and Santa Teresa — small towns near ports of entry along the border between New Mexico and the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Both projects are being funded with money initially allocated to the Defense Department that was redirected by Trump’s executive order. Use of the money was previously frozen by lower courts while a lawsuit proceeded. Last month, however, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the use of about $2.5 billion — and defense officials were expected to announce billions more for the wall as early as this week...MORE