American Military News by Lorenzo Zazueta Castro - The Monitor 4/18/2020
The Trump administration has registered new border wall waivers for Starr County in its efforts to make good on a campaign promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Filed Wednesday, the new waivers would allow for construction of physical barriers and walls without the formal environmental studies and other procedural steps typical of this type of construction along the border.
The “project areas†are the following: west boundary of Salineno, Texas, along the Rio Grande, south and east to the southern boundary of Salineno, west of the Los Negros Creek Tract of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge following along the river, west of Rio Grande City extending east approximately 215 feet southeast of the international bridge.
The waivers are the newest to be filed by the Trump administration as it tries to fulfill a campaign promise of President Trump’s to secure the nation’s borders with Mexico to stem illegal drugs and human smuggling into the U.S.
As is standard in the filing, the waiver underscores the region’s apprehension rate as a reason for the need for the physical barriers.
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