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By CBP’s public accounting, roughly 400 miles of “new” border wall system had been completed during 2025, while additional projects and contract awards during the year put hundreds more miles into con...
By mid‑2025 several large private contractors had won U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) construction awards: Granite Construction received a $70.3 million contract for ~7 miles in Hidalgo Count...
Federal agencies leading wall construction and upkeep by 2025 were principally the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its component U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which managed plann...
The Smart Wall map and CBP summary list the existing barrier prior to January 20, 2025 as about 702 miles of “primary” barrier and roughly 76 miles of secondary barrier, made up of different fence and...
By the end of 2025, publicly available federal and state documents in the provided reporting do not supply a single, consolidated tally of “miles completed” of new border barriers broken down by Borde...
Federal funding proposals and executive actions in 2025 have poured billions into new “Smart Wall” construction: the One Big Beautiful Bill / budget reconciliation and committee proposals center on ro...
Legal fights over environmental reviews and easements, state-federal funding disputes, and use of statutory waiver authority slowed or complicated border barrier work through 2025; DHS waivers in Apri...
Available reporting shows that most mileage reported as “built” during 2020–2025 consists of replacement or upgrades to pre‑existing barriers rather than net new primary wall where none existed before...
Federal and state reporting and interactive maps show renewed construction since January 20, 2025, with CBP and DHS listing over 80 miles of new permanent barrier projects initiated across San Diego, ...