How many total miles of new physical barrier had CBP contracted for or completed by December 31, 2025?

1. What the records explicitly show about newly awarded contracts

A CBP national release in late 2025 lists five Smart Wall contracts awarded in November–December 2025 and specifies project-level barrier miles for several of them — Tucson 2 (19 miles primary and 19 miles secondary), Del Rio 3 (22 miles primary), and Laredo 1 (15 miles primary plus 16 miles of waterborne barrier) — which together account for at least 91 miles of new barrier or waterborne barrier tied directly to those contract awards ^[1]. That release also states the Smart Wall contract portfolio reached $8 billion but does not provide a single consolidated miles total for all awarded contracts, and it distinguishes detection-technology mileage (about 149 miles) from new barrier mileage ^[1].

2. Pre-existing contract obligations that add to the tally

Separately, DHS’s FY2025 border-barrier funding report notes approximately $577 million in previously held FY2020–FY2021 funds already obligated on contracts for the construction of roughly 25 miles of new border wall, which CBP is prioritizing toward current projects; those obligated miles therefore represent additional contracted work carried forward into the 2025 program ^[2]. Combining the clearly enumerated recent contract miles with the previously obligated 25 miles yields a minimum of about 116 miles that can be tied to contracts as of the end of 2025 from the documents provided ^{[1] [2]}.

3. Planned projects are much larger but are not the same as contracted

CBP’s environmental assessments and planning documents filed in 2025 show many large “planned” projects — for example, CBP describes planning approximately 222 miles of barrier-system attributes in parts of Arizona (Tucson sector), 88 miles in El Paso/Hudspeth Counties, 142 miles of barrier-system attributes in Imperial/Yuma counties, and a 63-mile waterborne barrier project in Maverick County — but these materials are framed as planning or NEPA analyses and do not mean contracts were awarded or construction completed as of December 31, 2025 ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}. CBP’s Smart Wall Map similarly separates “planned,” “under construction,” and “completed” mileage but the map content in the sources does not provide a single completed-mile total in the cited excerpts ^[3].

4. Completed miles: the public record in these sources is silent

CBP’s Smart Wall Map is described as showing completed mileage “since 1/20/2025,” but the excerpts provided do not include an explicit numeric total of completed miles as of the end of 2025; therefore the amount of new physical barrier actually finished by December 31, 2025 cannot be determined from the supplied documents alone ^[3]. CBP’s press release and environmental assessments discuss awards, planning, waivers, and attributes of barrier projects (lighting, fiber, cameras, roads) but do not publish a consolidated completed-miles figure in the excerpted materials ^{[1] [4] [5]}.

5. How to read these numbers and what’s missing

The cautious, evidence-based conclusion from the materials provided is that at least ~116 miles of new physical barrier had been contracted for by year-end 2025 — a floor, not a cap — composed of recently awarded contracts that explicitly list ~91 miles and previously obligated contract work of ~25 miles ^{[1] [2]}. Planned projects described in CBP environmental documents would add hundreds more miles if executed ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}, but “planned” or “assessed” mileage should not be conflated with contracted or completed work without supporting contract award notices or completed-mileage reports, which are not present in the provided sources ^{[3] [1]}.