{"id":13361,"date":"2025-03-16T19:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T19:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/cbp-awards-first-border-wall-contract-of-president-trumps-second-term\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T19:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T19:16:11","slug":"cbp-awards-first-border-wall-contract-of-president-trumps-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/cbp-awards-first-border-wall-contract-of-president-trumps-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"CBP awards first border wall contract of President Trump&#8217;s second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>United States Customs and Border Protection has awarded a construction company roughly $70 million to a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/texas-offers-border-land-potential-trump-mass-deportations\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">extend the wall along the southern border<\/a><\/span>, in the first such contract of President Trump&#8217;s second term.<\/p>\n<p>The contract tasks Granite Construction Co., a California-based company that has worked on government projects before, with building approximately seven more miles of the wall on a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in Hidalgo County, Texas. Border Patrol announced the contract Saturday, saying it aims to &#8220;close critical openings&#8221; in the wall only partially built under Mr. Trump&#8217;s direction during his first presidency. Former President Joe Biden <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/biden-border-wall-funding-freeze-legal-government-accountability-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">froze funding<\/a><\/span> for the border wall program when he took office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Completing the border wall in these locations will support the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s (DHS) ability to impede and deny illegal border crossings and the drug- and human-smuggling activities of cartels,&#8221; said Border Patrol. The agency described the section of the Rio Grande Valley where construction will get underway as a common entry point for undocumented crossings that also &#8220;experiences large numbers of individuals and narcotics being smuggled into the country illegally.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump&#8217;s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, formerly the governor of South Dakota, said construction on the wall officially began Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody, I&#8217;m here in Arizona, and right at this spot you can see where the border wall ends,&#8221; said Noem\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sec_Noem\/status\/1901278601506652213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a video<\/a>\u00a0shared on social media. &#8220;As of today, we&#8217;re starting seven new miles of construction. We&#8217;re going to continue to make America safe again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-twitter-tweet embed--float-none embed--size-medium lazyload\" data-require=\"third-party\/twitter-widgets\">\n<div class=\"embed__content-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Announcing today &#8211; we\u2019re building 7 more miles of wall. <\/p>\n<p>Make America Safe Again! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JyVgxrzSZY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/JyVgxrzSZY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sec_Noem\/status\/1901278601506652213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">March 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A controversial initiative designed to curb illegal immigration into the U.S., the border wall has garnered renewed focus from federal authorities since Mr. Trump&#8217;s return to the White House. Among his litany of executive orders, the president issued two, &#8220;Securing our Borders&#8221; and &#8220;Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border of the United States,&#8221; which in part directed the Department of Homeland Security to &#8220;take all appropriate action&#8221; to achieve &#8220;full operational control of the southern border.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/vance-hegseth-gabbard-visit-southern-border-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">visited the southern border earlier this month<\/a><\/span>, to highlight the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to combat illegal crossings and drug trafficking. Illegal border crossings have plummeted since Mr. Trump took office, although Vance said, &#8220;I think the president&#8217;s hope is that by the end of the term we build the entire border wall.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n      <em><\/p>\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/camilo-montoya-galvez\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Camilo Montoya-Galvez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.<br \/>\n      <\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/emily-mae-czachor\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Emily Mae Czachor<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Emily Mae Czachor is a news editor at CBSNews.com. 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