# New border wall question.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-border-wall-question/840716>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 23, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-border-wall-question/840716 "2019-09-23T18:58:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-border-wall-question/840716/1 "2019-09-23T18:58:52Z")

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General Questions because I’m looking for simple facts.

I’m having no luck finding images of whatever (if anything) that has been built. I see photos of proposed walls and such, and of course pictures of people climbing a ‘slat’ wall.

My Google foo is failing. Is there a design?

I would think that if any of this is actually happening, there would be plenty of pictures. From what I can find, the only work that has been done is on existing fence/wall.

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**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-border-wall-question/840716/2 "2019-09-23T19:14:13Z")

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[Here is some video footage](https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/19/trump_interview_with_fncs_ed_henry_interest_rates_iran_border_wall_guns.html), you can see the design pretty clearly.

As for the “existing fence/wall”, there has been some work on replacing existing fencing, and at least in some cases it was replacing vehicle barriers (incapable of stopping pedestrians) with more significant slat-wall structures that, well, if they don’t stop _all_ pedestrians they’re certainly more significant obstacles to their passage.

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**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-border-wall-question/840716/3 "2019-09-23T19:37:28Z")

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Here are a couple of recent CBP press releases that contain images and video of some of the new construction:

[CBP Completes Construction of 50 miles of New Border Wall](https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-completes-construction-50-miles-new-border-wall)

[New Border Wall Project Completed in San Diego](https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/new-border-wall-project-completed-san-diego)

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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-border-wall-question/840716/4 "2019-09-23T19:43:41Z")

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Thanks HD. That was from 9/19/19. So that part of the wall is a slat wall.

You’re correct of course saying that “if they don’t stop all pedestrians they’re certainly more significant obstacles to their passage.”

I assume it’s been recently built.