The Trump administration just released new photos of 'the president's border wall' under construction, and it looks a lot like a fence - see for yourself

A 20-mile stretch along New Mexico’s southern border, near the Santa Teresa port of entry, is currently lined with a short vehicle barrier.

The Customs and Border Protection agency said this particular sector has seen a high number of arrests related to illegal border-crossing and drug smuggling.

Source: CBP

In fiscal year 2017, Border Patrol agents arrested 25,193 people for crossing the border illegally. They also seized 34,189 pounds of marijuana and 140 pounds of cocaine.

Source: CBP

CBP awarded a construction contract in January to the Montana-based Barnard Construction. The company has been tasked with removing the existing vehicle barrier and replacing it with the bollard-style wall.

Construction on the new wall is expected to take roughly 400 days and cost $73.3 million. Those funds will come from 2017 Department of Homeland Security funding.

Sources: CBP, Associated Press

Though reporters on Monday questioned whether the bollard wall is truly the wall Trump had envisioned, Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Hull said it is "accurately described as a wall because it's a very serious structure."

Hull said the wall will be 18 feet, including a five-foot anti-climbing plate at the top. He added that the wall consists of concrete filled with rebar — and it delves six feet into the ground with an additional two feet of concrete positioned below.

"Sir, it's very much a wall. And we're going to use it to stop illegal entries," Hull told one reporter. The 20 miles of vehicle barrier replacements should be finished in roughly 400 days.

Source: CBP