Border Wall Construction Needs $1.6B to Start Next Year
BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION WILL COST $1.6 BILLION FOR WORK TO START NEXT YEAR
BY SOFIA LOTTO PERSIO ON 6/14/17 AT 1:26 PM
Construction of new barriers along the southern U.S. border with Mexico could start as soon as spring 2018 if the budget is approved.
The House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee held a hearing on Tuesday on the 2018 budget requests for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
CBP acting chief Carla Provost, who has been working in the agency since 1995, told subcommittee chairman John Carter, a Republican congressman for Texas, that the amount requested for the construction of new barriers would allow the works to start as early as March 2018.
Just what kind of barrier will be built remains unclear, as Provost said the agency is still evaluating different prototypes, with the deadline of “late summertime” set for an analysis of what would be most appropriate. For next year, Provost told the committee, “We are working diligently, if we received the funding, to being able to start in March or April of 2018.”
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