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450 Miles of Border Wall by Next Year? In Arizona, it Begins

Associated Press

   YUMA, ARIZONA - On a dirt road past rows of date trees, just feet from
   a dry section of Colorado River, a small construction crew is putting
   up a towering border wall that the government hopes will reduce -- for
   good -- the flow of immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border
   illegally.

   Cicadas buzz and heavy equipment rumbles and beeps before it lowers
   30-foot-tall (9-kilometer-tall) sections of fence into the dirt.

   "Ahi esta!" -- "There it is!" -- a Spanish-speaking member of the crew
   says as the men straighten the sections into the ground. Nearby,
   workers pull dates from palm trees, not far from the cotton fields that
   cars pass on the drive to the border.

   South of Yuma, Arizona, the tall brown bollards rising against a
   cloudless desert sky will replace much shorter barriers that are meant
   to keep out cars, but not people.

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