EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — New barriers will soon be popping up along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday morning issued a memo announcing plans to install a 17-mile-long “waterborne barrier” in the Rio Grande on the Southern tip of Texas.
The barrier would end where the river meets the Gulf Coast, though it is unclear what it will look like or if it will mimic the chain of large orange sphererical bouys that Texas installed in Eagle Pass.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection also announced plans to build a barrier that would cut across the lower end of Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, New Mexico. The mountain is located where Texas, New Mexico and the Mexican border state of Chinuhuahua meet. It’s also a known hot spot for human smuggling.
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In this episode of Border Report Live, correspondents Julian Resendiz and Sandra Sanchez and host Daniel Marin discuss how the government plans to pay for one these projects and how it is getting the public involved with the other.
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