"The U.S. government has built fencing along roughly one-third of the 1,933-mile southern border with Mexico.
The border state with the longest boundary—Texas, at about 1,241 miles—is covered by only 115 miles of fencing.
Data obtained by The Daily Signal shows there is plenty of space for President-elect Donald Trump to make good on his campaign promise to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
But according to experts, physical barriers are only one component of border security, and Trump could encounter similar challenges to his predecessors in trying to construct a wall—or more likely, additional fencing—across complicated, unpredictable terrain."
http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/13/in-considering-trumps-wall-see-where-fencing-has-yet-to-be-built-along-mexico-border/
The border state with the longest boundary—Texas, at about 1,241 miles—is covered by only 115 miles of fencing.
Data obtained by The Daily Signal shows there is plenty of space for President-elect Donald Trump to make good on his campaign promise to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
But according to experts, physical barriers are only one component of border security, and Trump could encounter similar challenges to his predecessors in trying to construct a wall—or more likely, additional fencing—across complicated, unpredictable terrain."
http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/13/in-considering-trumps-wall-see-where-fencing-has-yet-to-be-built-along-mexico-border/