Trump officials tout progress on border wall before election

Acting Homeland Secretary Chad Wolf gives a speech in front of a new section of the border wall on Thursday (Joel Martinez/The Monitor/AP)

Senior Trump administration officials have visited Texas five days before the election to announce they have completed nearly 400 miles of US-Mexico border wall as they try to show progress on perhaps the president’s best-known campaign promise of 2016.

While most of the wall went up in areas that had smaller barriers, the government built hundreds of miles of fencing as high as 30 feet in a short amount of time — most of it this year.