MISSION, Texas (Border Report) -- Along Conway Road in this border town is a stockyard that has for years held steel bollards to build the border wall.

During the Biden administration, the supply was dwindling, but when President Trump took office in January the stock began increasing.

And now there are stacks of black bollards in the yard ready to be built.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a visit to the border last month in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, announced that the border wall along the Southwest border from now on would be black.

That's to deter illegal immigration because she said "when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb.”

Noem says the new color is at the behest of Trump.

Border Patrol Chief Mike Ba

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