US Border Patrol agents held a groundbreaking event on Monday for a new "bollard-style wall" intended to replace roughly 20 miles of vehicle barriers along New Mexico's southern border.

Though the replacement wall doesn't match the stature or complexity of the eight border-wall prototypes built in California, agents insisted to reporters on Monday that the bollard wall was the same one that President Donald Trump famously promised voters throughout his campaign.

"This is the beginning, in this sector, of the president's border wall, yes," Aaron Hull, the chief of the Border Patrol's El Paso sector, said at a press briefing.

Customs and Border Protection said the bollard wall replacement was being constructed as part of an executive order on border security that Trump signed shortly after taking office.

Trump has run into numerous obstacles in constructing his wall — the most significant being Congress' reluctance to fund it.

Lawmakers in March shot down Trump's request to provide $25 billion for the wall, much to his annoyance. Instead, Congress supplied only $1.6 billion for border security and fencing similar to what already exists along the border.

Here's what the bollard wall looks like: