Trump administration awards billions in border ‘Smart Wall’ contracts in push to target illegal immigration

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The Trump administration announced on Friday that it awarded billions of dollars in contracts to expand construction of the “Smart Wall” along the southwest border. 

President Donald Trump has for years made building a wall to keep illegal immigrants out of the United States the signature tenet of his message to voters. 

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