President Donald Trump has Democrats in such disarray that they can’t decide whether he’s breaking his campaign promises or fulfilling them too fast. Earlier this month, the Democratic Governors Association accused the president of delivering “broken promise after broken promise.”
Yet Washington Democrats’ favorite newspaper recently panicked that President Trump is fulfilling the campaign pledge at the heart of his political movement for more than a decade.
Despite reports that the president has not followed through on building a “big beautiful wall” on America’s southern border, the “Trump administration is building hundreds of miles of border wall” from Texas to California, The Washington Post reported on March 21.
The Fake News media even described the exact amount of construction taking place—a “three new miles of wall a week”—giving readers a concrete way to measure President Trump’s honesty.
The president has completed 35.9 miles and awarded contracts for 662 additional miles, which are currently in the design phase. But that vastly understates the profundity of the border wall President Trump plans to build, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Three miles a week is just another brick in the wall.
As of today, the Trump administration has 2,662 miles of border wall planned, awarded, or completed, according to CBP’s Smart Wall map.
The total project is actually longer than the United States’ 1,954-mile border with Mexico, because the president plans to build hundreds of miles of secondary wall to reinforce existing barriers. On Wednesday, the CBP posted video of workers constructing about 25 miles of new border wall in Sonoita, Arizona, part of the Tucson sector.
But President Trump envisions far more than that.
Construction of the border wall system is underway near Sonoita, Arizona, featuring black-painted, prefabricated bollard panels. This border wall section within the Tucson Sector is aiming to curb illegal entry and smuggling.
The wall works! Expansion of the border wall will… pic.twitter.com/WGhlH035Gm
— CBP (@CBP) March 25, 2026
Aside from the physical construction, “CBP is also deploying approximately 549 miles of technology in locations with previously constructed barrier,” reported the administration—including cameras and flood lights atop three-story-high bollards.
About 535 miles of the border will be covered technologically because of the region’s formidable terrain, natural barriers, or remote desert locations that make passage difficult.
Still, cartels and human smugglers managed to bring 89,000 people through the remote Big Bend Ranch State Park during the Biden-Harris administration. The construction will furnish a major political victory to President Trump, who built 458 miles of border wall during his first term. But the Democratic administration that took office in 2021 halted construction flat, in some cases, literally opening the door to hordes of illegal alien invaders.
President Trump swept back into office in 2024 on his pledge to finish the wall and ramp up deportations of the millions of illegals the Biden-Harris administration and its predecessors admitted.
The current border wall construction comes thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed Congress last July and contained approximately $50 billion of funding earmarked for the big, beautiful wall. Rep. Daniel Webster, R-Fla., explained at the time that the groundbreaking legislation gave the president enough money “to complete 701 miles of primary wall, construct 900 miles of river barriers, construct 629 miles of secondary barriers, and replace 141 miles of vehicle and pedestrian barriers” along the U.S. border with Mexico.
It also funded Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has kept border enforcement going through congressional Democrats’ partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
Of course, Democrats claim President Trump is wrong to fulfill his border enforcement campaign rhetoric.
“The aggressive pace…has alarmed” radical environmentalist activists “who say the construction will destroy pristine country, threaten endangered species, and cut off access to sacred Indigenous and archaeological sites,” whines The Washington Post—the same newspaper that gets upset when children pray in school.
The reporters also grouse that Trump administration officials “disregard the wall’s impact on plants and animals.”
For good measure, Jeff Bezos’ rag also highlighted the plight of a man who feared he might lose his business due to the wall’s construction, although the Fake News media said little when 700,000 businesses closed during the first three months of the COVID lockdowns.
The Washington Post implied that building the wall seems unnecessary, since Texas is “experiencing historically low border crossings.” True, Border Patrol agents stationed on the southwest border have encountered a decade-low 52,000 illegal immigrants so far this calendar year, thanks to President Trump’s aggressive security measures. But the Biden-Harris administration had four times that many border crossings nearly every month.
At this point, anti-Trump Republicans and liberal Democrats alike admit that physical barriers reduce illegal crossings on the southern border.
The border wall became so popular that Republicans running against President Trump, like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, made it part of their political platform.
When the Biden administration tore down the wall and auctioned off its parts, Texas Governor Greg Abbott began building his own state border wall. He just declared mission accomplished and wound down the Texas Border Infrastructure Program last month, after constructing an 82.2-mile-long permanent barrier on its southern border. Democrats maintain the wall is inhumane and ineffective. But, of course, liberals have no problem building walls around their mansions, vacation homes, or luxury getaways. Enormous “security walls” and fences, sometimes with armed guards, surround Barack Obama’s ritzy residence in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood, Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach manor, to the Clintons’ estate in Chappaqua. Then again, Hillary Clinton once said she supported efforts “to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.”
Some Democrats proved positively shameless about embracing the border wall they campaigned against. When then-President Biden visited the border, he would only set foot in areas still protected by the Trump border wall. Even 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who once promised she was “not gonna vote for a (border) wall under any circumstances,” featured the remnants of President Trump’s border wall in her 2024 presidential campaign ads.
Most importantly, the men keeping the peace along the Rio Grande know the wall works.
“This border wall actually makes every single agent more effective,” stated CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott in February. “Every investment we make in infrastructure and technology across all of CBP lets the actual agent, the human being, do things that only the human being can do.”
“Even during this unnecessary shutdown, wall construction infused with smart technology continues,” added Scott last week. “Now if Congress would just approve our appropriations, we could pay these CBP personnel who are dedicated to protecting America.”
Of course, it’s not all smooth sailing with President Trump’s MAGA base. “For two weeks of the war, we could pay for the entire wall on 2000 miles of our southern border,” said conservative firebrand Ann Coulter, a critic of President Trump’s military conflict with Iran, Operation Epic Fury.
More importantly, for two weeks of the war, we could pay for the entire wall on 2000 miles of our southern border. https://t.co/O3M2Q34zii
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 21, 2026
Still, there is no doubt that President Trump is keeping his promise to build a permanent wall, secure the border, and keep Americans safer from Central American gangs, cartels, and narcoterrorists.
That’s something worth celebrating, which is exactly why it makes the liberal media cry.