Washington – Pentagon Chief Says $1 Billion Of Funding Shifted To Border Wall

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    Washington – The U.S. Department of Defense shifted $1 billion to plan and build a 57-mile section of “pedestrian fencing”, roads and lighting along the border between the United States and Mexico, the Pentagon chief said on Monday.

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    Last week, the Pentagon gave Congress a list that included $12.8 billion of construction projects for which it said funds could be redirected for construction along the U.S.-Mexico border.

    FILE - U.S. workers build the border wall between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on Feb. 5, 2019. EPAU.S. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency last month in a bid to fund his promised border wall without congressional approval.

    Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said in a memo to Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen that the Department of Defense had the authority to support counter-narcotics activities near international boundaries.

    Shanahan authorized the U.S Army Corps of Engineers to begin planning and executing the project that would involve building 57 miles of 18-foot-high fencing, constructing and improving roads, and installing lighting within the Yuma and El Paso sections of the U.S.-Mexico border.


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    5 years ago

    Hello genusis build that walk quietly shtila heit. Stop announcing what you’ll do. The dems will put tons of roadblocks and stop you. You ever saw how the settlers in Israel build homes in Arab neighborhoods? They build prefabs and plop it down in middle of the night. The govt needs to do the same

    5 years ago

    DO YOU WANT THIS TO HAPPEN IN AMERICA?????????

    (Infowars) – In an address to Al-Aqsa mosque-goers, Palestinian cleric Abu Taqi Al-Din Al-Dari said that France will become an Islamic state because it will mostly be inhabited by Muslims by 2050.
    “France will become an Islamic country through jihad; the entire world will be subject to Islamic rule,” the cleric said
    Al-Dari said that this would happen because young European natives are not getting married, settling down and having children whereas Muslims have a high fertility rate and have lots of children
    “Muslims must have a country that will bring Islam….to the people of the west through jihad for the sake of Allah,” said Al-Dari.
    Al-Dari then referenced how the Ottoman Empire previously conquered European countries and that “these events portend that the Islamic nation is capable of returning to its former self and spreading Islam.”
    The cleric said that this would be accomplished in one of three ways.
    “Conversion to Islam, payment of the jizya poll tax, or we will ask for Allah’s help and fight them until the entire world is subject to the rule of Islam,” he concluded.

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    5 years ago

    I like this Pentagon money going for the Wall. This will justify The same money + 700 Billion for Medicare for all. Most people like Medicare, less than 30% wants a wall. We are not at war and we should not pay for Germanys defense, or So Korea, Nato etc.