Pursuit's Take
There has been a lot of talk about President Trump’s border protection project. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently examined Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) prototyping process, but, as GAO notes, the prototypes didn’t analyze the costs of putting barriers in each potential location. GAO insists that, “Without assessing costs, CBP doesn’t have complete information for prioritizing barrier deployments in the most cost-effective manner.”