The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded BFBC LLC, a subsidiary of Bozeman, Montana-based Barnard Construction, a $569 million contract modification for the construction of approximately 17.2 miles of barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border in California. This adds to the $141.7 million contract awarded to the company in May for work in California and Arizona. — Construction Dive
According to Construction Dive, the Army Corps said that the projects are being delivered in response to the Department of Homeland Security's request that the Defense Department assist in securing the southern border to block drug smuggling through the construction of roads, fences and lighting systems. The additional border wall work by BDBC is due to be completed by June 30, 2021.
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What a monumental waste.
All monument's are a waste sooner or later.
They usually end-up good tourists attractions like the Great Wall of China.
Too bad the CBP has stated that in areas with new border wall illegal crossings have dropped by over 90%. I'd call that "WILDLY SUCCESSFUL" not a monumental waste. Maybe a monumental waste to DNC people who want easy future voters (they think anyways, although Latinos tend to lean conservative in their values).
Motivation finds a way. People aren't crossing where it was just made more difficult to cross, but they'll get across some how. Building a barrier just pushes people into riskier situations and un-necessarily endangers human lives. You won't stop border crossings with a wall, you'll stop border crossings by doing the hard work of solving the humanitarian problems that motivate people to cross the border.
The optics of a big wall might play well to the simpletons, but the issue remains.
A good axiom for government is simple: You can't legislate behavior, you can only legislate motivations. People will find a way to do what they need to do to survive. The solution isn't to make it harder for them to do what they need to, but to make it easier for them to survive.
Future google searching potential clients of any design professionals named christopher loesch; here are his political views:
christopherloesch "Too bad the CBP has stated that in areas with new border wall illegal crossings have dropped by over 90%. I'd call that "WILDLY SUCCESSFUL" not a monumental waste. Maybe a monumental waste to DNC people who want easy future voters (they think anyways, although Latinos tend to lean conservative in their values)."
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