Pentagon Approves Shift of $3.8 Billion To Support Southern Border Wall

The border fence between the United States and Mexico just east of Sasabe, Arizona, on Dec. 7, 2018. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

The Department of Defense (DOD) announced Thursday that it has authorized about $3.8 billion to be diverted toward building some 177 miles of fencing across the U.S.-Mexico border, in efforts to address drug-smuggling activities.

According to a request sent to Congress on Thursday (pdf), the money is “required to provide support for counter-drug activities of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).”