![]() ![]() Jay Field, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, cited the canyon’s “4.7 miles of challenging, rugged and steep terrain” in a statement explaining that the cost per mile for this segment is about $41 million, roughly double the border wall’s estimated average cost per mile laid out in a 2020 C.B.P. Work crews are blasting cliff sides on a daily basis to build the wall and access roads to it in one of the costliest portions of construction anywhere on the border. Now parts of the canyon resemble an open-air mining operation. Until the blasting crews showed up this year, the canyon was so remote - about 30 miles outside of Douglas, the closest town, on largely dirt roads - that ranchers in the area say illegal crossings by migrants were extraordinarily infrequent. In southeastern Arizona, the continuing political divisiveness around the president’s signature construction project has pitted rancher against rancher and neighbor against neighbor in a state that a Democratic presidential candidate narrowly carried for the first time in decades. Trump in places that were crucial to his defeat. ![]() Biden decides to do, is here to stay for the foreseeable future, establishing a contentious legacy for Mr. The breakneck pace at which construction is continuing all but assures that the wall, whatever Mr. has said he hopes to halt construction of the border wall, but the outgoing administration is rushing to complete as much wall as possible in its last weeks in power, dynamiting through some of the border’s most forbidding terrain. Four years ago, President Trump took office with a pledge to build a towering wall on America’s border with Mexico - a symbol of his determination to halt immigration from countries to the south and build a barrier that would long outlast him.
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