Future mega projects: American Wall Project

Before President Donald Trump’s promises of an “impenetrable” wall
at the United States AND Mexico border, there was America’s wall.
As it stands today, the wall is imperfect.
It is a hodgepodge of steel gates, concrete pillars, hip-high vehicle barricades and other materials.

It is marred with cuts and patches;
bypassed beneath by tunnels
interrupted by long stretches of desert
where thousands of people have died trying to enter the United States illegally on foot;
and cradled on the east and the west by vast expanses of water
where people swim, scuba dive and sail around the border.
Almost 90 percent of what is there today was built in the past 12 years

Trump plans to begin his wall by removing and replacing 14 miles of fencing in San Diego,
beginning at the coast,
the administration has secured 102 million dollar for that replacement project,
but if the president can get more funding he aims to lengthen America’s wall.

The goal of building walls and fences at the U.S.-Mexico border has always been
to curtail illegal immigration .
So, has the wall done its job? Will a new one do it better?
This border wall that stretches from California through Texas has been covered exhaustively
The mapping data shows America’s wall stretches for 653 discontinuous miles along the 1,954-mile American-Mexico border.
The strength of that wall varies.
Some 37 miles of the main wall are backed up by a secondary fence.
The most heavily fortified states are California, Arizona and New Mexico.
In Texas, hundreds of miles separate sections of fencing.