U.S Border Customs & Patrol Pilots Get Modular Building At Sierra Blanca's Border Patrol Station
Online, September 10, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Icon Construction Inc., completes a custom design surveillance facility for the Department of Homeland Security. The Sierra Blanca Border Patrol Station houses canine and equestrian units along with a heliport to combat the illegal traffic on the border. Icon Construction was awarded the contract to provide a training facility with locker rooms and the second building will serve as an office for Air Mobile Units (AMU) pilots. AMU's prevent terrorists, illegal immigrants and drugs from entering the United States.
The completion of these custom-built modular facilities is timely, in the height of a Mexican drug war. The arrival of the units comes after three Mexican mayors were murdered in less than a month. Mayor Alexander Lopez was gunned down Wednesday, in his office. Hilary Rodham-Clinton said, "Mexico is beginning to look like how Colombia looked some 20-years ago, where the narco-traffickers controlled certain parts of the country."
Sierra Blanca's checkpoint is known as a 'functional equivalent of the border' this is due to its strategic location along the Mexican border. It is 15 miles from the Rio Grande, which enables the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to search cars for drugs and illegal immigrants without warrants or probable cause. These new facilities provide a closer heliport for helicopters conducting overhead surveillance, which will conserve government resources. Icon Construction partnered with military leaders to design and deliver these interim facilities in less than three months.
Icon Construction is the industry leader in fast track modular solutions and works with government/military officials to design turn-key state of the art modular buildings. The Texas-based construction company most recently replaced traumatic brain injury clinics in Fort Hood, which were destroyed during the November 2009 mass shooting. To get more information about this project or modular construction visit www.icon-construction.com
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