Photo: Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images
TEXAS – The President Donald Trump will travel to the Rio Grande Valley this Tuesday, amid procedures planned to remove them from the presidency after the violent attack last week. last in the Capitol facilities of the United States.
The White House did not reveal details about the visit of Trump, who was first reported by a Brownsville newscast ( KVEO ).
A week ago, officials from the Department of Homeland Security announced the “historic” feat of having completed 450 miles of border fence during the Trump administration.
The Rio Grande Valley is the site of legal proceedings and construction related to the border wall .
Customs and Border Protection announced that the age ncia would award new contracts to build 300 additional miles of border fence by 19 January.
According to a report from KVEO, after landing in Harlingen, Trump will fly to McAllen by helicopter.
The trip would be the second the president has made to the Rio Grande Valley during his tenure.
Trump visited McAllen on the 2019 during a partial government shutdown related to its attempt to acquire funds for the construction of the border wall.
Although fences have been installed at an accelerated rate in other sectors of the border, the construction of the wall in South Texas has been difficult for the Trump administration.
In the Rio Grande area the Trump administration has encountered numerous battles of eminent domain with property owners In the long or a sector of 110 miles of the proposed wall, only 15 miles of that sector have been completed.
Since 2017, the federal government awarded at least 12 contracts in South Texas with a value of 2 billion dollars before having secured the titles of the property in Texas, and that has caused the delay of the works.
It may interest you: Texans who participated in the Capitol riots now face charges and others have been fired from their jobs