Photo: AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump’s early, unachieved goal of building a border wall during his first term was a lofty one, and according to two law enforcement officers involved with the project, the companies contracting out the work may have lowered the standard from the “great,” “big, beautiful” project that he promised.
According to two whistleblowers — a former deputy sheriff in San Diego County and an FBI agent on construction security detail — some companies working on the wall had failed to properly run their personnel through the necessary Customs and Border Protection vetting process, going so far as to hire armed guards from across the border to protect the job sites.
The whistle-blowers said Ultimate Concrete went so far as to build a dirt road to expedite illegal border crossings to sites in San Diego, using construction vehicles to block security cameras …Ultimate Concrete “constructed a dirt road that would allow access from the Mexican side of the border into the United States,” the whistle-blowers said in the complaint. “This U.C.
Since the Trump administration placed its first steel bollard slats into the desert, the border wall has been something of a national tragicomedy — representing some of the more hysterical failures of the current White House, as well as the xenophobia that blinded the president to the futility of the project. Sections of the “virtually impenetrable” wall have blown over in high, but not uncommon, winds, while other areas require gates to be open for months to handle flash flooding.
In the report on the whistleblower complaint, the Times also provides new information on the frequency at which migrants have been able to cross through sections of the border scarred by the barrier. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol documents obtained by the paper reveal that between October 2019 and March 2020, the wall was breached over 320 times in four walled areas in California and Arizona.
It's cool. They overcharged Mexico because Mexico paid for it. Damn, Trump is wicked smart.
So ... WE paid Mexico to build The Wall?