WASHINGTON, May 16: Two US construction firms won more than $787 million combined to help build a wall on the southern border with Mexico, the Defense Department said in a press release
“Southwest Valley Constructors [of] Albuquerque, New Mexico was awarded a $646,000,000? contract for design and build of Tucson [Arizona] Sector barrier wall,” the release said on Wednesday.
BFBC LLC from the US state of Montana was awarded nearly $142 million to design and build vehicle and pedestrian barriers for projects in El Centro, California and Yuma, Arizona, the release added.
The Trump administration recently waived 41 environmental and public health laws to speed border-wall construction through federally protected sites in the US states of Arizona and California.
The Department of Defense has redirected $1.5 billion in funds in order to help pay for the construction of 80 miles of wall along the US-Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants. President Donald Trump has declared the illegal immigration crisis a national emergency.
(AGENCIES)
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