Pentagon authorizes $1-billion for Trump's border wall - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to build 92-kilometers of 5.5-meter fencing, build and improve roads, and install lighting to support Trump's emergency declaration as concerns the border.

The acting Defence Secretary defended the move by citing a federal law that he said: “gives the Department of Defence the authority to construct roads and fences and to install lighting to block drug-smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States in support of counter-narcotic activities of federal law enforcement agencies.”

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