Originally posted June 30, 2026
On June 3, the Department of Homeland Security awarded its largest upfront border wall contract to date to Fisher Sand & Gravel, a North Dakota company with a checkered past. The contract is for a barrier that runs the length of Val Verde County, Texas. Instead of building a traditional 30-foot steel border wall, the company’s $2.6 billion task is to cut a patrol road and erect what DHS describes as “low-profile vehicle barriers” through the rough limestone cliffs of the Lower Pecos region, where the Pecos River and the Rio Grande meet.
When Carolyn Boyd, a professor of anthropology at Texas State University, heard the news, she collapsed on the couch. Since that day, she said, “I’ve probably given myself brain damage from shaking my head so much.”
Read the full story at The Border Chronicle.
Photo credit: Shumla Archaeological Research and Education Center Archive
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