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    Trump's Border Wall Builders Carry On Even Though Projects May Never Be Completed

    President Trump's border wall builders are hurrying to get as many miles completed before President-elect Biden can cancel contracts. Biden has said his administration would stop building the wall.
    by John Burnett Nov 16, 2020 5 minutes
    In the Guadalupe Canyon, in southeastern Arizona, work crews are dynamiting mountainsides and bulldozing access roads in this stunning landscape to make way for the border wall.

    Work crews are dynamiting mountains and bulldozing access roads in the badlands of southeastern Arizona, while government lawyers have acquired a beloved birding preserve along the Rio Grande in South Texas — all to make way for a border wall that may never get built.

    The completion of President's Trump's signature wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is very much in doubt. Before winning the presidential election, Joe Biden flatly told NPR: "There will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration."

    But that hasn't stopped Trump's wall builders, who are hurrying to get as many miles completed before the next president can cancel their contracts. That's happening from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to Arizona's stunning Coronado National Memorial and Guadalupe Canyon, a wildlife corridor for

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