Border wall: Hundreds of miles funded, 5 new miles built

Border wall: Hundreds of miles funded, 5 new miles built

The federal government has completed 260 miles of replacement and secondary walls, but only 5 new miles of the 30-foot high steel bollard fencing where none existed before, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data obtained by the Express-News.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has not demonstrated the acquisition capabilities needed to execute the Analyze/Select Phase of the Wall Acquisition Program effectively (PDF)

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Steve Bannon’s Effort to Export His Fiery Popularism to Europe Is Failing

Steve Bannon’s Effort to Export His Fiery Popularism to Europe Is Failing

After Bannon was charged with fraud for his role in an effort to raise money to help build Trump’s wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, two people working with him said an effort to found an academy for right-wing Roman Catholic activists in Italy faces a criminal inquiry by the Rome criminal court and a project aimed at ending the European Union has closed up shop.