Trump administration announces 100 miles of border wall

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The Trump administration will use $1.6 billion in new congressional funding for 100 miles of new and replacement border wall along the U.S.-Mexico boundary, Acting Deputy Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Ronald Vitiello said Friday.

Vitiello described the wall system as a “comprehensive solution that provides wall, lighting, enforcement cameras, and other related technology, and all-weather roads to impede and deny illegal cross-border activity.”

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