Once there was a bustling construction zone here. Now it's like a ghost town, frozen in time.
Heavy machinery is parked and motionless. Stacks of steel bollards stretch as far as the eye can see.
The Trump administration built more than 450 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border — including hundreds of miles of replacement fencing and 52 miles of construction where there were no barriers before. The wall became a focal point of his presidency, a staging ground for political rallies and a symbol of the administration's controversial immigration crackdowns.
CNN's Ed Lavandera reports.
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Recycle the steel in the US infrastructure rebuilding!
@RyanB Funny thing is that Obama and Biden built more miles of border wall than Trump did. I didn’t believe it until I looked it up.
@A H I know that Obama definitely deport far more.
Right..infrastructures for illegal immigrants. Right on…Oh, put them to school while we pay for school. Good idea…
Infrastructure is anything democrats want it to be today. In Biden’s latest bill, about 9% is all that actually goes for legitimate infrastructure. The rest is your tax dollar being flushed down the toilet.
The costs would be the same, if the materials are already there are waiting to be installed it’s just stupidity to let them go to waste.
My Mexican friends are devastated this has not been built after paying for it
@Donavon Jewett HHHAHAHAHA Now I see why they keep saying Liberals are the smartest people on youtube. Question? (Rhetorically). So does the United States spend more money on immigrants coming across the Mexican border “illegally”. Or Does the United States spend more money to protect refugees from Europe and Asia to come to the United States. For starters the United States give $1,000 for every refugee from Europe and European bloc countries and Asia. Then they paid thousands of dollars for the refugee schooling to learn English and housing and job training. European bloc countries gets Billion of dollars in refugee aid. I bet you would never talk about that or have a problem with that. Only people coming from the Mexican border you have a problem with that. An they don’t get close to the money as European bloc country gets.
š¤¦šÆļø I SMELL THE HYPOCRISY
@Nathaniel Erskine
Do you really think that the cartels are sending drugs with poor migrants crossing the border on foot in remote areas of the desert? Or by plane, boat, or motor vehicle? Come on, man.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@Jose Luis Peraza Don’t get to comfortable
I like to know where these anti border wall folks live cause it seems like the majority of Americans living on the border favored the border wall construction. If anybody is glad that the border wall construction has stopped that would be the cartel who smuggle illegal drugs, illegal firearms, illegal ammunition, illegal people and sex slaves. Donāt believe me well Iām down close to an area called Guerra Texas. We find fresh abandoned camps full of trash, items and we also find animals shot to rot on the landscape all the time. The Texas coast is a hot spot for illegals and the cartel. So yea yāall are more than welcome to come down here and see for yourself how by stopping the border wall construction this will end up harming our environment even more rather than saving it. All because the lefties want more people voting for them in future elections for their policies.
Wow, a new infrastructure material.for some new projects
@Adam Taylor ( Cheap materials and charge max amount republican call it infrastructure , I call it money out of my pocket and yours!!!!)
LOL, like all of the leftover materials not used on all those shovel ready jobs Obama Biden had lined up? HAHAHAHAHA!
Good one! Although, I’m sure he didn’t get the best materials Virginia! ; ) : (
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Make homes for the cartels and the girls they human traffic š
All that money should have gone to the education system.
@Crimson Spirit … it’s beer I was out with blm/ antifa geting free stuff for justice ā …
@Eddie Shelton Of course I wouldn’t be for unlimited immigration… but I’m sure as hell aren’t for completely stopping immigration. You act like immigrants don’t work and you couldn’t be more wrong. You sound quite bigoted.
@Eddie Shelton The thing that pisses me off the most is the rich has got all of us fighting for the scraps while all of them enjoy their tax cuts, subsidies and bailouts.
@Fortitudine Vincimus We are talking about illegal immigrants.
@Fortitudine Vincimus I think you misunderstand me.I’m for limited immigration.However the cartels don’t care about those people,they just drop them over the wall like animals.Do you think it’s fair for hard working American’s having to foot the bill?Mexico should be ashamed of themselves for letting these poor people walk through their country?Do you know Mexico has a stricter boarder policy that America does?We need to take care of poverty in America first,that’s all.You say you aren’t in favor of unlimited immigration so I ask,should we let in 1 million a year, 2 million? 3 million?Where does it end? Tax payers in America have a big enough burden as it is,we shouldn’t have to pay for other countries miserable failures.
Billion dollar wall beaten by $5 worth of old lumber.
@Mark Lechman š¤¦
@Mark Lechman I think it’s biggest accomplishment was as a rallying and unifying cry to his base. Take that for what is is. Trump is unquestionably highly adept at masterfully playing into peoples fears, insecurities, ignorance, religion, patriotism and biases etc…..
7 dollar discount Stairs
The wall just slows the wetbacks down
Wall torn down by Biden and Harris
You mean the 25,000,000$/mile -wall- fence defeated by a 15$ ladder?
@Cheap ‘N Chic biden gave 90% of our stimulus to other countries and democrat pet projects… all that damn money right ?
no, look the answer is paying 10 trillion anuals in full border patrol
@Las Vegas america will loose superpower status if we keep letting poor loser in
Thatās fake news
@Nancy Ross you can make it free, you get the ladder, let the people pass, and return it!
What a disgrace and an eyesore to that beautiful envoninment. š„
Crazy how our military can’t protect our borders yet we protect Every other Shithole in the World…
The disgrace is the waste of money that Biden has no problem with, if the materials are already purchased and ready to install how stupid just to leave it all there going to waste.
@Thyalwaysseek materials tend to be the cheapest part of any project. That’s why. š®
@S.D. C Hey it’s your money Biden’s wasting, I mean your country is already in so much debt you will never be able to balance the books so why the heck not just add some more on.
Oh no! not the bigly beautiful wall that can definitively whistand a bit of wind and not fall!… LOL
@Jason Milton Totalitarianism and Theyoricy awaits, yea! š¤Ŗš¤Ŗš¤Ŗš¤Ŗ
If they would have gotten the funded that they wanted for it then it wouldn’t look like that. Common sense. I wonder what party was against funding the border wall?
Joe is doing a real bang up job! ššš
@Doyle Hargraves Actually according to Trump’s standards of judging the economy off of how well the marks fair. Biden has just set a record for the markets in his first 100 days, Covid is down shots etc….
@Denny Roling wasn’t Mexico supposed to pay for it you dingus?
A good day to start a scrap steel business in mexico.
https://youtu.be/qUAmAES-2o0
Righhhhhtttt… exactly what i was thinking, but they dont even have ppl in those areas š¤·āāļø
@Alfredo O It is not a bridge to nowhere. It’s a bridge to peacefully trading between nations. The Red Socialist Fascist Racist Republica Party has provided the building materials for the people on the border to spruce up their new homes alongside the bridges that the Americans Paid For…Due to Red Socialist Fascist Racist Security Infrastructure Failures…
Cheap chinese steel…
The illegal immigrants get to keep that
It’s a F-E-N-C-E!!!!!
@Pat Doyle only for the 1% of really fit for the Other 99% itās to high and too scary to risk death!
Where’s all the money that was suppose to be used? Do we get a refund for unfinished work?
How we gonna open those borders? Build a gate…
a fence isnāt 25 feet tall bozo
@jm8373 The “border wall/FENCE” DOESN’T WORK.
Such a lovely fence. Needs some hydrangea and azalea bushes.
It may be good at stopping one thing. Tumbleweed.
Oh yes, maybe some Morning Glories vining up. Or some Day Lillie’s thriving between the posts!
Aligators and Crocs would be better.
If I walked from Honduras to the U.S. border, a wall would be the least of my concerns. Lol
The way would stop you from entering.. walls work
@Mike Hill Actually many do.
@Miriam S there’s still a lot of caravan people in the area from 2 years ago
No wall needed, sleepy Joe takes everybody in.
I like to know where these anti border wall folk live because seems like the majority of Americans living on the border favored the border wall. And if anybody is glad that the border wall construction has stopped that is the cartel who smuggle illegal drugs, illegal firearms, illegal ammunition, illegal people and sex slaves. Donāt believe me well Iām down close to an area called Guerra Texas. We find fresh abandoned camps full of all kinds of trash, items and animals that have been shot to rot on the landscape all the time. The Texas coast is a hot spot for illegals and cartel yāall are more than welcome to come on down here and see how stopping the border wall construction has caused more harm to our environment rather than saving it in the long run. All because the lefties wants more people to vote for them in future elections for there policies.
Looks like great wall of china, but the 2D version. š
Works just as well to
“Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.” – General George S. Patton
“I don’t take inspirational quotes seriously from someone who died in a 20mph fender bender.” – Me
@Nunya Bidnez Yeah…he ALSO took on the Germans and won a LOT and repeatedly so. And this was BACK before air bags and seat belts. IF your head struck a metal object while you traveled as 20 MPH trust me you’d feel it. Usain Bolt is routinely clocked at 20 MPH, his fastest speed was 28 MPH. So imagine a full sprint like Usain Bolt head first into a steel cross bar.
Patton also said:
āPoliticians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicianā. š¤£
I wasnāt aware the cartels were using panzers with the luftwaffe circling overhead. Iām not sure Iām tracking the analogy.
āDonāt feed the people but
We feed the machineā
… Rush Grace Under Pressure
Correction … Territories, Power Windows … RUSH
Iām waiting for this to be on Mysteries of the Abandoned.
Iām waiting for that entire administration to be sued for crimes against humanity … just wait until the ā lost/ stolen/ traffickedā children grow up
You can wait a long time, seeing as Biden is planning on finnishing the wall.
@Devo – Biden clearly stated on the video, *”Not another foot of border wall will be built as long as I am president.”* I guess you missed it.
@In My Opinion he also said they will build a wall on the border better than Trump.
Call me crazy, but that still looks more like a fence to me….
This is what $50 billion dollars looks like, when you bury it in the desert.
Just imagine what $50 billion could have done to REALLY HELP the country.
You may never see what 6 trillion dollars looks like, but democrat politicians will.
@TOM Pastian – Oh, I think THE WHOLE COUNTRY will see the results of that “$6 trillion” (although the majority of Americans NEVER SAW MUCH of the $3 trillion which tRump gave mostly to himself and the wealthy). We’ll see that $6 trillion in a pandemic eliminated under the competency of the Biden government. We’ll see our economy come roaring back thanks to the bailout package. And we’ll see long overdo improvements to the infrastructure, something that the tRump “government” did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about.
The waste this man has incurred at the taxpayers expense is outrageous.
There’s plenty of desert available and having a good access road is handy to help out with all the tourists enjoying the pristine environment.