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South Texas border fence line and distant surveillance digital camera in 2013.
When President Joe Biden took workplace earlier this 12 months, he signed 17 govt orders on his first day. One in every of them halted development on President Donald Trump’s border wall alongside our southern border.
It left billions of {dollars} of labor unfinished, however underneath contract, the AP reported on the time. Now, some firms that have been constructing the boundaries are repairing environmental injury the development induced.
However not all the land alongside the U.S.-Mexico border is federally managed. Numerous it, notably in Texas, is actually privately owned by households who’ve usually lived there for generations. And that’s the place some new border boundaries might be constructed if Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will get his manner.
Abbott, a Republican who’s working for reelection, has made border safety a high subject and has taken in non-public donations to fund the brand new boundaries.
Uriel García is a reporter for the Texas Tribune who has been reporting on the companies in the running for the profitable contracts.
The Present spoke with him to find out about these firms.
