U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks announced that a border wall project in Texas terminated under the Biden administration has resumed.
“Back in business!” Banks said. “USBP began installing 18-foot-tall border wall panels in the Rio Grande Valley Sector’s Hidalgo County today. These panels were originally planned for installation during the prior Trump Administration, but the contracts were cancelled by the Biden Administration.”
“The panels going in today will replace the six-foot guard rails and will provide impedance and denial capabilities in support of the President’s recent Executive Orders to ensure complete operational control of the Southern border,” he explained.
The announcement comes as Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard visited the southern border.
“I think the president’s hope is that by the end of the term we build the entire border wall,” Vance told reporters. “And of course, that’s the physical structure, the border wall itself, but we even heard today, there are so many good technological tools. So many great artificial intelligence-enabled technologies that allow us, for example — a camera, not a person, but a camera picks up somebody two miles away who’s about to come across the southern border.”
“We’re using artificial intelligence to make us better at the job of border enforcement, but we’ve got to make sure that technology is deployed across the entire American southern border. We’re going to do it as much as we can, as broadly as we can, because that’s how we’re going to protect the American people’s security.”
