SAN DIEGO (FOX5/KUSI)--A new paint job is in store for the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, announced the mission to paint the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border black to deter people from climbing it and to address wear and tear.

“The President specifically recognized that black gets hotter in this weather and in this heat," Noem said during a press conference Tuesday. "When you touch something that is hot during these kinds of temperatures, it is very difficult to climb it, to touch it, to handle it."

In July, President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act was passed, which allocated $46.6 billion toward border wall construction.

“We don’t know how many people are climbing the border wall, but we do usually see border wall ladders thr

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