this one is for you as you said last night that six hundred miles of wall has been put up already but no one has heard of it . I have heard of it before but here is some info on that wall. yes it was not trumps idea as you said.
read full story here you will find the quote above in the 16th or 17th paragraph
http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/system...o-wall.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/system...o-wall.htm
Quote:The US and Mexico share a common border of about 2,000-miles (3,200-km). As of February 10, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security had completed 651 miles of fencing out of nearly 652 miles mandated by Congress, including 299 miles of vehicle barriers and 352 miles of pedestrian fence.
More Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico from the US than have migrated here since the end of the Great Recession, according to a November 2015 Pew Research Center analysis of newly available government data from both countries. The same data sources also show the overall flow of Mexican immigrants between the two countries is at its smallest since the 1990s, mostly due to a drop in the number of Mexican immigrants coming to the US. From 2009 to 2014, 1 million Mexicans and their families (including US-born children) left the US for Mexico. From fewer than 1 million living in the United States in 1970, the number of Mexican immigrants peaked at 12.8 million by 2007. The total declined to 11.7 million in 2014.
In November 2005, DHS announced the launch of the Secure Border Initiative (SBI), a multiyear, multibillion-dollar program aimed at securing U.S. borders and reducing illegal immigration. CBP's SBI program office is responsible for managing the SBI program and for developing a comprehensive border protection system. This system has two main components: SBInet, which employs radars, sensors, and cameras to detect, identify, and classify the threat level associated with an illegal entry into the United States between the ports of entry, and SBI tactical infrastructure (TI), fencing, roads, and lighting intended to enhance U.S. Border Patrol agents' ability to respond to the area of the illegal entry and bring the situation to a law enforcement resolution (i.e., arrest). The current focus of the SBI program is on the southwest border areas between ports of entry that CBP has designated as having the highest need for enhanced border security because of serious vulnerabilities.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, required DHS to complete construction by December 31, 2008, of either 370 miles or other mileage determined by the Secretary, of reinforced fencing along the southwest border wherever the Secretary determines it would be most practical and effective in deterring smugglers and aliens attempting illegal entry. This provision also required the construction of reinforced fencing along a total of not less than 700 miles of the southwest border where fencing would be most practical and effective, but it did not establish a deadline for completion of the full 700 miles. DHS set a goal to complete approximately 670 miles of fencing by December 31, 2008. In December 2008, DHS reported that it planned to complete all but one of the fence projects by March 2009.
read full story here you will find the quote above in the 16th or 17th paragraph
http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/system...o-wall.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/system...o-wall.htm
