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Border wall breakup: Will blacklisting of contractors end if construction stops?

October 30, 2020

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When the Trump administration started planning its program of wall replacement and new construction at the Mexican border, the political pushback was immediate. In fact, the opposition to building the border wall started during President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign after he introduced the plan, insisting that the U.S. would force Mexico would pay for it.

Once the government started taking proposals for construction, state and local agencies began issuing stark warnings to contractors that they would be banned from doing work in their jurisdictions if they participated in wall construction. Some went as far as promising to exclude those companies that even bid on one of the controversial projects.

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