Work stops at one of the biggest border wall construction sites

Published February 3, 2021 11:30am ET



HERMANAS, New Mexico — Construction crews are packing up after coming within 1 mile of finishing a roughly 90-mile border wall project outside El Paso, Texas.

Ten days after President Biden halted the Trump administration’s border fence projects, workers are slowly closing down the massive job site. Driving on dirt roads through the construction project, the rancher whose property this site is located on says most machinery and workers have been shipped out. It still looks as if it will take several more weeks to sort everything out.

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