“Wall construction has not been affected,” said a CBP spokesman. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Border wall construction staging area at the San Bernardino Valley, Arizona, where work continues despite the pandemic. The latest planned additions to the piecemeal wall construction come after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees CBP, waived a series of federal laws to speed up construction. On Friday, the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, announced that the Mexico-US border would be close to all non-essential travel. “It’s callous, dangerous and unacceptable for border wall construction to continue,” said Laiken Jordahl, borderlands campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Source: The Guardian March 22, 2020 06:00 UTC