From the U.S. Department of Defense:
DOD Spokesman Provides Border Wall Update
At present, about a mile of border wall is being built each day, Jonathan Rath Hoffman, assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs, told reporters at a Pentagon news conference today.
The Army Corps of Engineers is the executive agent for DOD's border wall construction. In April and May, the Corps awarded about $2.5 billion in projects to build a portion of the wall that will span 129 miles in New Mexico, Arizona and California, Hoffman said.
As of this week, virtually all of that $2.5 billion has been obligated and is on contract, and officials expect to have the remaining $3 million obligated before the end of this month, he said.
Hoffman pointed out that some of the property used for the wall construction already belongs to DOD — most notably, the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range in Arizona — and other land is in the process of being transferred from the Interior Department to DOD. Another allocation of $3.6 billion authorized under Title 10, U.S. Code, Section 2808, will go for 175 miles of border wall, he said.
And the mainstream media's reporting on this?
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The border that we share with Mexico is 1,954 miles long. I do not know how much wall is there already but if they started from scratch today, it would only take a little more than five years to put up the entire thing. This is do-able.
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