A CAMPAIGN PROMISE TAKES SHAPE: SOME OF THE KEY DATES IN BUILDING THE ‘FAMED WALL’
February 2017
A Homeland Security report says a combination of fences would cost nearly $22 billion, compared to the $12 billion figure Trump cited on the campaign trail.
June 2018
A SLS Co. started substituting 6.4 kilometres of scrap metal wall with a bollard design, raising the height of the barrier from roughly 8-10 feet to 18-30 feet
August 31, 2018
US Border Protection picked Caddell Construction, Fisher Sand & Gravel/DBA Fisher Industries and Texas Sterling Construction out of over 200 companies.
Nov 31, 2018
Daesh Gideon Contracting started on the first $3.7 million phase, which includes the addition of seven out of 35 gates to border infrastructure in the Rio Grande sector.
January 2019
The president’s funding request, to support 376 kilometres of wall infrastructure, was $4.1 billion more than what the Senate proposed.
Feb 15, 2019
The White House says it will supplement the spending bill’s roughly $1.4 billion with $601 million from the Treasury, $2.5 billion from DOD’s counternarcotics funds.
Feb 18, 2019
Just south of its 22-kilometres replacement of primary barrier in San Diego, SLS started replacing secondary barrier with a similar steel bollard design.
March 7, 2019
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. says it can construct 234 miles for $1.4 billion — the amount Congress offered in answer to Trump’s $5.7 billion plea to cover the same distance.
March 11, 2019
Trump requested $5 billion, as well as $3.6 billion for barrier construction to replace some of the defence money he tapped into under the emergency declaration.