VP Vance Says Trump Aims To Complete Border Wall By 2029
The Trump Administration is working hard to secure the border.
During aย visit to Eagle Pass, Texas,ย a reporter asked Vice President Vance how he and the President would define โsuccessโ when it comes to the initiative and how much of the border needs to be โwalled offโ before the end of Trumpโs administration.
โI think the presidentโs hope is that by the end of the term we build the entire border wall,โ the vice president replied.
โAnd of course thatโs the physical structure โ the border wall itself โ but we even heard today, there are so many good technological tools, so many great artificial intelligence-enabled technologies that allow usโ to guard the southern border, he added.
The Hill reported that Vance also suggested the administration would employ artificial intelligence (AI) tools to aid with efforts to combat illegal immigration โ aย top priorityย for Trump, who promised while on the campaign trail to conduct theย largest deportation operation in history. The vice president pointed to AI-enabled cameras that can spot migrants up to 2 miles away from the border, before they cross over.
โWeโre using artificial intelligence to make us better at the job of border enforcement, but weโve got to make sure that technology is deployed across the entire American southern border,โ Vance said.
โWeโre going to do it as much as we can, as broadly as we can, because thatโs how weโre going to protect the American peopleโs security,โ he added.
Building the wall was a centerpiece of Trumpโs 2016 presidential campaign.ย During his first term, his administrationย reinforced more than 400 milesย of the already existing wall and added about 80 miles of barrier to the border.
Trump administrationย officials recently told GOP senatorsย that theyโre running out of money to secure the border and need Congress to immediately pass $175 billion to complete the U.S.-Mexico border wall and hire more law-enforcement agents.














