NEW: U.S. Customs and Border Protection admits that *no* new border wall has been erected

he United States government has built no new border walls during the Trump administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed on Thursday.

Border barriers erected between the U.S. and Mexico since Inauguration Day 2017 have consisted of supplements to existing walls and replacements for outmoded or decreipt sections.

'The first new wall project, where no barrier currently exists, is anticipated to start in April,' CBP spokesman Roger Maier said in an email. He identified Hidalgo County as the construction project's location, a border zone along a meandering 50-mile stretch of the Rio Grande.

CBP said last year that it was 'designing and constructing approximately 25 miles of levee wall system' in that county, whose anchor is the the border city of McAllen.

Some of Trump's claims about his construction described sections of border wall where none existed before.

In January he tweeted a complaint that '[t]he Fake News Media keeps saying we haven’t built any NEW WALL.'

He provided a photograph of a section of border wall, saying: 'Below is a section just completed on the Border. Anti-climbing feature included. Very high, strong and beautiful! Also, many miles already renovated and in service!'

Trump didn't say where the photo was taken, but a date-stamp indicated it was created in October.

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