1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20229 U.S.Customs and Border Protection Released via FOIAonline account. May 22, 2019 CBP-2018-007591 Austin Evers 1030 15th St. NW, Suite B255 Washington, DC 20005 Dear Mr. Evers: This is a final response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), submitted and received in this office on October 31, 2017. In your request, you are seeking: Total costs spent on building, constructing, or repairing the wall, fence, or other physical barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border for each of the fiscal years from FY2008 through FY2017. A search of CBP databases produced a total of two pages of records responsive to your request. CBP has determined that two pages of the records are partially releasable, pursuant to Title 5 U.S.C. § 552 (b)(7)(E). Uploaded to your FOIAonline account are two pages with certain information withheld as described below: FOIA Exemption (b)(7)(E) protects records compiled for law enforcement purposes, the release of which would disclose techniques and/or procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law. CBP has determined that disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law. The type of information withheld in this request is the specific mileage of the fence, release of which would alert individuals to the extent of enforcement coverage in these areas and allow circumvention of border security. This completes the CBP response to your request. You may contact CBP's FOIA Public Liaison, Charlyse Hoskins, by sending an email via your FOIAonline account, mailing a letter to 90 K St, NE MS 1181, Washington DC, 20229 or by calling 202-325-0150. The FOIA Public Liaison is able to assist in advising on the requirements for submitting a request, assist with narrowing the scope of a request, assist in reducing delays by advising the requester on the type of records to request, suggesting agency offices that may have responsive records and receive questions or concerns about the agency’s FOIA process. If you are not satisfied with the response to this request, you have a right to appeal the final disposition. Should you wish to do so, you must file your appeal within 90 days of the date of this letter following the procedures outlined in the DHS regulations at Title 6 C.F.R. §5.9. Please include as much information as possible to help us understand the grounds for your appeal. You should submit your appeal via FOIAonline by clicking on the “Create Appeal” button that appears when you view your initial request. If you do not have computer access, you may send your appeal and a copy of this letter to: FOIA Appeals, Policy and Litigation Branch, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 90 K Street, NE, 10th Floor, Washington, DC 20229-1177. Your envelope and letter should be marked "FOIA Appeal." Copies of the FOIA and DHS regulations are available at www.dhs.gov/foia. Additionally, you have a right to seek dispute resolution services from the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) which mediates disputes between FOIA requesters and Federal agencies as a non-exclusive alternative to litigation. If you are requesting access to your own records (which is considered a Privacy Act request), you should know that OGIS does not have the authority to handle requests made under the Privacy Act of 1974. You may contact OGIS as follows: Office of Government Information Services, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road-OGIS, College Park, Maryland 20740-6001, e-mail at ogis@nara.gov; telephone at 202-741-5770; toll free at 1-877-684-6448; or facsimile at 202-741-5769. Please notate file number CBP-2018-007591 on any future correspondence to CBP related to this request. Sincerely, Jodi Drengson FOIA Analyst, FOIA Division U.S. Customs and Border Protection FY 2017 Funded Summary I R~rogi-ar nrn t,,z $WM -------- Ar::;~rt-cc rurc/Errg,IM-c r ·,g I • d ·,Ir 1r.1fld". r.d,~«n, z l\equ..t"ll!mt-n Pl n ~J)