They consider the black paint unnecessary, costly and a significant long-term maintenance burden, and they left it out of the original U.S. Customs and Border Protection design specifications.

US Customs and Border Protection, which oversees border wall construction, is painting approximately 450 feet of new border wall in San Luis, Arizona, using a “coal tar epoxy,” in an effort to ...

D ays after the Department of Homeland Security told Congress it needed U.S. troops to paint the southern border wall with Mexico to “improve” its “aesthetic appearance,” the Pentagon ...

President Donald Trump has again expressed his wish for his border wall with Mexico to be painted black. Painting the steel bollards that make up the wall would add at least an extra $500m to the ...

Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan appeared to struggle to explain why the wall needs to be painted, even if it means fewer miles of wall will be built.