The Biden administration will soon begin the two-year process of installing a border wall barrier on 10 sections of land that run along the Texas border with Mexico, according to documents from Customs and Border Protection.
Walls will be installed in 10 areas across 20 miles of Starr County, stretching east from the Falcon International Reservoir to La Joya — a length of more than 50 miles on a map. These areas are high-traffic spots where Border Patrol regularly interdicts cartels as they attempt to move large amounts of drugs and immigrants who have paid to be taken across the border. acoustic panels
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Towns and neighborhoods affected by the construction include Falcon Village, Salineno, Roma, Fronton, Villareales, Las Lomas, El Refugio, and Santa Cruz.
The barrier is a less common type of barrier system.
Normally, heavy machinery is used to dig 6-foot-deep trenches in the ground, drop huge pieces of steel into those slots, and then cement is used to fill the trenches to hold the steel posts upright.
A CBP spokesperson told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that it “will be using 18-foot steel bollard fence panels placed in removable concrete jersey barriers, as the steel bollard design remains the most operationally effective design and has been tested and evaluated over the last several years.”
CBP said this barrier design will include 18-foot tall, 6-inch, square steel bollards spaced 4 inches apart and embedded into a movable concrete jersey barrier-style base. Jersey barrier is normally used to reroute traffic or pedestrians and got its name after its initial use in New Jersey to frame highway lanes in the 1950s.
The South Texas area where the barriers are being erected is known as the Rio Grande Valley, a region with more than 1 million residents, including 3,000 Border Patrol agents.
CBP chose to erect 20 miles of barrier in Starr County because it is the Border Patrol’s “highest priority location within RGV Sector.”
Technology that can detect human activity, lighting, and access roads will also be added.
“An area of 60 to 100 feet wide could accommodate a Functional Class-2 (FC-2) maintenance road north of the barrier and an FC-2 patrol road on the riverside of the barrier,” CBP said in a September statement. “The area could also include cameras, vegetation clearing, lighting, and a utility corridor with communications fiber and electrical systems.”
In preparation for construction in the coming months, CBP said residents can expect “laydown yards,” places where project materials and concrete batch plants can be set up.
The laydown yards would occur no more than once per 5 miles.
“Construction of the proposed new border barrier system would be expected to take up to two years,” CBP said. “Maintenance to the proposed border barrier system would be expected upon completion of construction. Maintenance activities could include routine upgrade, clearing of debris from the barrier, repair, and maintenance of the patrol road and barrier system that would not result in a change to their use (e.g., resurfacing a road or replacing a gate component).”
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Starr County, where the wall is slated to go up, is home to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX). Cuellar was a thorn in President Joe Biden’s side early on, blasting the White House for the record-high number of immigrants illegally crossing the border.
steel fence panel The projects will be paid for with money Congress appropriated during the Trump administration in 2019 for border barrier projects in the region.