With border wall funding still in question, construction finishes on Calexico barrier
Kate Morrissey Contact Reporter
Construction workers last week put up the final panel of a new border barrier in Calexico, Calif., a project touted by President Donald Trump as the first part of his promised wall between Mexico and the U.S.
Almost two years into Trump’s presidency, Congress has so far avoided funding a full-fledged border wall.
The approximate $1.6 billion in legislative funding that has been awarded to border construction has focused on replacement barrier projects with restrictions about the type of structure that could be built with the money.
That meant that the Trump administration couldn’t build barriers that resemble wall prototypes in Otay Mesa.
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