Almost 1,000 officers from rest of UK to start training to deal with trouble arising from hard border Vikram Dodd, Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Rajeev Syal Fri 4 Jan 2019 10.53 EST First. Border Wall Construction Project to Begin in Texas WASHINGTON – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), has awarded a contract to construct approximately six miles of levee wall system in the U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector, which was funded in CBP. There are two discrete but entangled elements to the impasse in Brexit negotiations over the Irish border: the “backstop”, which is an insurance policy that Ireland wants to ensure the border.