The Trump administration has awarded five brand new contracts to continue building a high-tech “Smart Wall” along the southern border the U.S. shares with Mexico in Texas and Arizona. The new contracts will bring the cost of building the wall to a total of $8 billion. According to new data, when the border wall is finally finished, it will include 1,418 miles of what’s being called “Primary Smart Wall,” along with 536 miles of a “Waterborne Barrier System,” and 708 miles of “Secondary Border Wall.”
A total of 536 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border that is currently without any barrier at all will now be covered by state-of-the-art detection technology “due to unfavorable terrain or remoteness of location,” according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The CBP is also going to be setting up 549 miles of tech in locations that already have barriers.
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