President Trump\u2019s administration announced it is planning to build new barriers that extend within nearly 10 miles along the San Diego-Mexico border.<\/p>\n
The proposed barriers would be built near the Tecate and Otay Mesa Port of Entries.<\/p>\n
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said they plan to build and maintain nearly 10 miles of primary border barrier.<\/p>\n
This would consist of 30-foot-high six-inch squared diameter steel bollards, with anti-climb features.<\/p>\n
The largest barrier would be located West of the Tecate Port of Entry and would be nearly eight miles.<\/p>\n
East of Tecate, they plan to build a little more than one mile of the new barrier.<\/p>\n
The third one would be East of Otay Mesa Port of Entry. That one would be a little over three miles.<\/p>\n
Immigration advocates like Pedro Rios with American Friends Service Committee opposes the plan claiming this would divert migration flows into more dangerous areas. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBorder walls just simply don\u2019t work. They\u2019re not a useful way of deterring migration. They just complicate the crossing and add to how people are affected, are harmed, die as a result of border walls. And it\u2019s not a solution,\u201d Pedro Rios said.<\/p>\n
CBP also plans to add nearly 52 miles of improved infrastructure along existing barriers, including surveillance cameras, access patrol roads, artificial lights, and other features.<\/p>\n
Last month, through a federal register notice, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued a waiver of environmental laws that would cover this project.<\/p>\n
Rios also worries about the impact the project could have on the environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s dangerous to the fauna and the flora. It\u2019s dangerous to the migratory animals that live in the area,\u201d Rios said.<\/p>\n
But CBP said they will be carrying out biological and cultural surveys with tribes, federal, state, and local agencies to gather information about the potential impacts associated to the project.<\/p>\n
NBC 7 reached out to CBP for comment and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n
CBP is also inviting the public to share their input on the environmental, cultural, commerce, and social and economic impacts the project could have on the region. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The deadline to participate is October 23rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s administration announced it is planning to build new barriers that extend within nearly 10 miles along…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":263276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,409,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,39478,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-263275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-us-mexico-border","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115286488111883125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}