President Donald Trump’s administration is constructing “Smart Walls” that use advanced technology to help U.S. Border Patrol agents prevent illegal immigrants from entering the United States by illegally crossing the southern border.
Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that the Trump administration awarded 10 new construction contracts for roughly $4.5 billion in September. The Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection confirmed that the new construction contracts include hundreds of miles of “Smart Wall” construction along the southwest border of the United States.
“For years, Washington talked about border security but failed to deliver. This President changed that,” Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott stated in the press release. “The Smart Wall means more miles of barriers, more technology, and more capability for our agents on the ground. This is how you take control of the border.”
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According to the press release, the 10 construction contracts include 230 miles of Smart Wall and almost 400 miles of new technology.
“The Smart Wall is a border security system that combines steel barriers, waterborne barriers, patrol roads, lights, cameras, and advanced detection technology to give Border Patrol agents the best tools in the world to stop illegal traffic,” the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection said. “The technology additions will further secure existing wall in areas where the Biden Administration policies cancelled contracts to do so.”
The Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection explained that the 10 new construction contracts awarded by the administration in September are the “very first” contracts to be awarded with funding provided by Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which was signed in July. The press release noted that the contracts also include minimal funding that was designated under the Fiscal Year 2021 wall appropriations, which was put on hold by former President Joe Biden’s administration.
The Trump administration’s Smart Wall construction contracts include projects in San Diego, California; El Centro, California; Del Rio, Texas; El Paso, Texas; Tucson, Arizona; and Yuma, Arizona.
