By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Customs and Border Protection has announced a $289.5 million contract to build about 17 miles of contagious new border walls within Border Patrol’s Laredo Sector in Webb County, Texas.
Fisher Sand and Gravel Company, DBA Fisher Industries, received the contract, CBP said Monday.
With the apprehension of nearly 22,000 undocumented immigrants and the seizure of more than 30,000 pounds of drugs so far this fiscal year, the Laredo Sector is one of the busiest in the U.S.
Most of the illegal activate is occurring in areas where the sector lacks infrastructure, access and technology, CBP says.
The plan is part of President Trump’s aggressive push for new wall construction.
“These projects will improve Laredo Sector’s ability to impede and deny illegal border crossings and the drug and human smuggling activities of transnational criminal organizations,” CBP said.
