By Bobby Falat
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection awarded a contract for border wall construction to Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. out of southwest North Dakota.
The contract is worth $309,463,000 to construct approximately 27 miles of new border wall in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, located within the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector.
This contract is funded with CBP’s Fiscal Year 2021 funds and will close critical openings in the border wall that were left incomplete due to cancelled contracts during the Biden Administration.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the Tucson Sector is an area of high illegal-entry attempts and experiences large numbers of individuals and narcotics being smuggled into the country illegally.
Fisher Sand and Gravel is a Dickinson, North Dakota based company that has been operating since 1952.
In 2009, a former co-owner was sentenced to more than 3 years in prison for tax fraud and impeding the IRS.
And more recently in 2019, the company settled a federal lawsuit over construction of a separate, privately funded border wall that was said to be at risk of flooding.
