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Published On: Sat, Dec 1st, 2018

Border wall gate construction begins in Texas

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, awarded a contract to construct border wall gates in the U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector, which was funded in CBP’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 appropriation.  The contract for the first phase of gate construction was awarded on October 3, 2018 to Gideon Contracting, LLC, from San Antonio, Texas in the amount of $3,731,380 for the seven base gates.  The contract includes options for four additional gates valued at $1,985,525. Construction for the first seven gates is scheduled to begin November 30, 2018.

Gate construction includes the installation of 35 automated border wall gates, associated equipment, and site improvements at current openings in the existing pedestrian wall alignment in the USBP RGV Sector.  The gates are within the area of responsibility of the Fort Brown, Brownsville, and Harlingen Border Patrol Stations within Cameron County, Texas. The gates will be located off the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) levee at the end of or along existing levee ramps. Once installed, the gates will serve as a persistent impediment to smuggling organizations while still allowing river access for property owners, USBP, other local/state/federal officials, and local emergency responders.

The RGV Sector remains an area of high illegal cross border activity.  In FY 2017, USBP apprehended over 137,000 illegal aliens and seized approximately 260,000 pounds of marijuana and approximately 1,192 pounds of cocaine in the RGV Sector.

CBP continues to implement President Trump’s Executive Order 13767 – also known as Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements – and continues to take steps to expeditiously  plan, design, and construct a physical wall using appropriate materials and technology to most effectively achieve complete operational control of the southern border.

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