HB 111 NEW MEXICO-MEXICO BORDER BARRIER

Rep John Block

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 House Bill 111 (HB 111) appropriates one billion five hundred million dollars ($1,500,000,000) for the construction of a border barrier at the New Mexico-Mexico border. 

 House Bill 111 (HB 111) appropriates one billion five hundred million dollars ($1,500,000,000) from the General Fund (GF) to the Homeland Security And Emergency Management Department for expenditure in Fiscal Years (FY) 2025 through 2028 for the construction of a border barrier at the New Mexico-Mexico border.
HB 111 makes construction of the barrier contingent on the federal government’s agreement to allow the barrier.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 2028 reverts to the GF. 

 During the 2016 election campaign candidate Trump claimed that the wall would cost only $12 billion, while a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) internal report in February put the cost at $21.6 billion. 
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-wall-the-real-costs-of-a-barrier-between-the-united-states-and-mexico/
As of 2023, sources estimate that 741 miles of the 1954 miles of U.S.-Mexico border is now fenced off. Of that amount, 636 miles are fenced off with what usually gets called “border wall”: “pedestrian fencing,” or segments of barrier that are high enough, with slats close together enough, to block someone crossing on foot (and unwilling to climb). The other 105 miles are “vehicle fencing”: usually, barrier that is low or widely spaced enough to walk through or over, but not to drive through or over. 
The Trump administration built 87 miles of border wall in spaces that had no barrier before. Trump also replaced 195 miles of vehicle fencing with pedestrian fencing, for a total of 282 miles of new pedestrian barrier: an 80 percent increase. And they made a lot of old pedestrian barrier taller, or double-layer.
https://adamisacson.com/u-s-mexico-border-barriers-now-total-741-miles/
According to a Customs Border Protection site, CBP operates under an annual budget based on appropriations received from Congress.  For FY 2018, CBP received $1.375 billion for border infrastructure projects on the U.S. Southwest border. For the Rio Grande Valley, $641 million was appropriated for all costs associated with planning, land acquisition, and construction of 8-12 miles of new border wall system in Starr County and 25 miles of new levee wall system in Hidalgo County.
https://www.cbp.gov/node/293681/printable/print