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Department of Homeland Security is building primary border wall at roughly 2.6 miles per week, a rate that would need to more than quintuple to meet Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin's pledge to complete the full barrier from the Pacific to the Gulf of America by this time next year.
With about 698 miles of primary wall still unbuilt and only 10 percent of the planned barrier in place, the construction data make Mullin's timeline difficult to reconcile with the calendar.
A Widening Gap Between Pledge and Pace Mullin testified to Congress in June that the primary border wall would be finished "from the Pacific to the Gulf of America this time next year," a claim he has since repeated at press conferences.
Meeting that self-declared deadline would require construction to exceed 13 miles per week — more than five times the rate recorded for most of 2026.
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