As the nation's capital grapples over how to fund the controversial border wall, construction of a new one in the Rio Grande Valley is set to begin in the next few days. Bentsen, a top national destination for bird watching, is located down the road from the bird center and will see one of two Rio Grande Valley border wall projects run through its property. It calls for six miles of new border wall and will run on the south side of the U.S. International Boundary Water Commission levee, featuring concrete slabs with 18-foot tall bollards. His push for $5.7 billion for a border wall triggered a standoff last month that led to the country’s longest government shutdown. "I just don’t think I’d want to be close to a border wall in a park.”

Source: Fox News February 08, 2019 21:11 UTC