Acting CBP Chief: We’ve Built 78 Miles of Replacement Border Wall, Now Breaking Ground for New Wall

(CNSNews.com) - Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said at a White House press briefing on Thursday that the administration has so far built 78 miles of new border wall where there were already existing but insufficient structures and has just now started breaking ground in the Rio Grande Valley to build new border wall in areas where there previously were no border barriers. “So, right now, the 78 miles that have been built have been built where there was an existing form of barrier,” said Morgan. “We just started breaking ground in RGV [Rio Grande Valley], where we're building miles of new wall where there has been no structure there at all.”

Morgan provided this answer after being pressed by a reporter to distinguish between new border wall that was being built where there already were existing structures and wall that was being built where there had not been existing structures. “So, 78 miles of new wall has been built,” Morgan said initially. “So, much of that, obviously, is replacing wall that formerly existed that the president said was insufficient,” a reporter followed up. “How many miles of wall now exist where there was no wall whatsoever?” “So, again, my response to that is: Every mile of wall that's being built is a new mile of wall,” Morgan said. After another follow-up, Morgan clarified his response as follows: “So, right now, the 78 miles that have been built have been built where there was an existing form of barrier. We just started breaking ground in RGV, where we're building miles of new wall where there has been no structure there at all.”
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