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Granite wins first border wall construction contract of Trump’s second term
19 March 2025
Construction of the border wall between the US and Mexico near El Paso, Texas, US. (Image: Adobe Stock)
Granite Construction has won the first border wall construction contract of US President Trump’s second term in office.
The contractor will build seven miles of new border wall in Hidalgo County, Texas, within the US Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector, as part of a deal worth US$70.3 million.
The US Customs and Border Protection agency said the work would close “critical openings” in the wall, after contracts for its construction were cancelled under the Biden administration.
The work comes as US Customs and Border Protection implements two Trump executive orders titled “Securing our Borders” and “Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border of the United States”, which direct the Department of Homeland Security to construction physical barriers to “ensure complete operational control of the southern border of the United States”.
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