Top Trump administration officials have visited Texas five days before Election Day to announce they have nearly completed 400 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall.
They're trying to show progress on a key 2016 campaign promise. While most of the wall went up in areas with smaller barriers, the government built hundreds of miles of fencing as high as 30 feet in a short amount of time — most of it this year. However, crews bulldozed forests and blasted through hills in national wildlife refuges and on Native American land to do it. Despite President Donald Trump’s promises that Mexico would pay for the border wall, the construction has cost U.S. taxpayers at least $15 billion.
