{"id":2479225,"date":"2025-08-26T19:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-administration-begins-building-border-wall-in-rio-grande-valley-of-texas\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:18:50","slug":"trump-administration-begins-building-border-wall-in-rio-grande-valley-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-administration-begins-building-border-wall-in-rio-grande-valley-of-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration begins building border wall in Rio Grande Valley of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The article reports that the Trump management has authorized the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to begin construction on five miles of border wall in the Rio Grande Valley region of South Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi noem issued a waiver to bypass environmental regulations<\/a>,including the National Environmental Policy Act,allowing construction to start instantly without the usual administrative approvals. This action is part of a broader effort, with about 100 miles of the border wall currently under construction and approximately 450 miles completed during Trump’s first term. The new project in Starr and Hidalgo Counties is funded through congressional appropriations from the 2019 fiscal budget, which allocated over $46 billion for border security, including the wall, roads, lighting, and technology. vice President JD Vance expressed the goal of completing the entire border wall along the nearly 2,000-mile southern border during a potential second Trump term.

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