Homeland security secretary Christie Nom said on Tuesday that black paint is being done to heat the entire wall along the US-Maxico border and stop illegal immigration-one idea he said that “especially at the request of President Trump” was.
Nom spoke during a journey to a part of the wall in New Mexico, where she also picked up a roller brush to help with painting.
He postponed his depth as a way to stop people with the height of the wall -to go up or down the walls. And Nom said that Homeland was trying black paint to make security metal a hotter.
“This is especially at the President’s request, which understands that when something is black here in warm temperatures, it becomes even more hot and it will make people even more difficult to climb. So we are going to portray the entire southern boundary wall to ensure that we encourage individuals not to come illegally in our country.”
The US Border Petrol’s lead Mike Banks, who participated in the event with NOEM, said that paint would also help stop the war.
During the first term of Mr. Trump, the construction of the wall was a central meditation of their hardcore immigration policy, although construction on the wall Some legal and logical delays facedDuring his second term, his collective exile agenda has been the main focus with arrest in the interior of the country, but Homeland Security Must be happening About 46 billion dollars to complete the wall as part of the new funding passed by the Congress in Trump-supported “A big beautiful bill act“in this summer.
The Trump administration has also demanded to strengthen the southern border by other ways. Thousands military personnel Pass sent For the US-Maxico border, and Mr. Trump has Authorized army To control narrow strips of public land along the range. Crossing those areas is considered to enter a military base, which can be detained by both the border patrol and the Defense Department, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Said earlier this year,
Noam said that the federal government is building a barrier of about half a mile every day.
“The boundary wall will look very different based on topography and geography where it is made,” she said.
He said that what he visited on Tuesday, besides obstacles, is also working on the department “water-borne infrastructure”. Long segments of a border of about 2,000 miles between the US and Mexico sit with the Rio Grande River in Texas.
The Trump administration is moving ahead with completing the wall at the same time that the number of people crossing the border has fallen. In the month of June, only more than 6,000 migrants Was arrested Along with the southern border, a standing dropofoff with a decades-less-time-and a steep dropoff with the biden administration, when the border arrest was at the peak above 6,000 per day.
