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All of this information is accurate. Congress only gave Trump funding for bollard-style walls in San Diego, Calexico and Santa Teresa.In Calexico, Border Patrol starts constructing a border wall. No, not that border wall.
https://www.desertsun.com/story/new...ing-border-wall-no-not-border-wall/373465002/
Feb. 28, 2018
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has begun construction on a fence in Calexico that will extend about two miles along the U.S. border with Mexico. But agency officials said people shouldn’t confuse this with President Donald Trump’s much-hyped wall.
“We just wanted to get out in front of it and let everybody know that this is a local tactical infrastructure project that was planned for quite some time,” said David Kim, assistant chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol’s El Centro sector.
He said he wanted to ensure that, “there is no confusion about whether… this is tied to some of the bigger immigration debates that are currently going on.”
As Kim spoke, a crane placed several 30-foot-tall steel bollards along the border. The tall posts, spaced several inches apart, will replace an approximately 2.25-mile-long fence made of Vietnam War-era landing mats that was constructed in the late 1990s.
The new, more substantial barrier will more effectively protect a section of the border that is highly trafficked by migrants and drug smugglers, Kim said.
In 2009, the Border Patrol identified this improvement project as a priority, he said, long before Trump proposed building a “big, beautiful wall’ that is projected to cost $18 billion. Funding for the Calexico project – about $18 million – was allocated last year.
Next month's budget negotiations will be interesting. Trump has indicated he will push for a government shutdown unless the "real" wall is fully funded. Multiple Senate Democrats are on board.