Posted on 06/27/2017 7:52:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will begin building prototypes for President Trump's proposed wall along the Mexican border this summer, authorities said on Tuesday.
Agency officials said at a news briefing that the department is ready to begin testing designs on land that is already owned by the government. Four to eight designs will be built and tested, but officials didn't say when the process would actually begin.
“We own that land, have access to it and it’s a good place to start testing in a real-world environment,” acting deputy commissioner Ronald D. Vitiello told reporters at the briefing.
Funding for Trump's border wall was not included in the budget submitted by the White House for fiscal year 2018, but DHS has allocated $20 million from other programs to pay for the prototypes.
Officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection told The Washington Post that they have received "hundreds" of designs for the border wall, but the agency has yet to choose vendors.
Designs for the wall should be at least 18 feet high and have features to prevent climbing over and tunneling beneath the structure, and vendors are instructed to make the designs "aesthetically pleasing" on the U.S. side.
Can’t wait to see what they look like and have the Left go into yet another meltdown.
and gators- they forgot angry gators
It’s already “This summer”.
Start.
If it’s government land I am assuming they can keep the protesters off....hopefully. Otherwise, I hope they’re using some nice big bulldozers (think Rachel Corrie).
The Helms Deep model has already been discarded.
I actually like his idea of solar panels. They wanna try and crawl over? Let em grab hold of one of those solar panels in the desert sun. Even at night they are warm.
Not only that, they could provide the electricity for the fencers and lights/detectors.
The panels do not have to be “part of the wall”.
I think he is mocking the moonbats a bit.
The left is exhausted. A 71 year old billionaire completely drained them of all coherence.
They have slithered away much like CNN.
Sounds like this could be as big as the Manhattan Project - testing eight different designs - for a wall? I love it, because it sounds so impressive as to be ridiculous and silly.
“Aesthetically pleasing” on the USA side...on the Mexican side maybe photorealistic paintings of mounted and armed cowboys, military, militias, nuke explosions, speakers with wolf howls, land mine and rattlesnake sound effects blasting. Maybe several spots with large screen TVs showing old Mexican-American war and Alamo flicks. Maybe even a place to get leaflets that explain how to enter America legally if they really want to get in that bad for school or menial work and then work their way up to citizenship.
With laser beams on their fricken heads
I found this when looking up “DHS Border Wall Prototypes” on Google.
https://borderwallbuilders.com
“on the Mexican side...”
Out in the middle of the desert, need lots of loudspeakers aimed towards the Mexican side blasting Slayer and the sounds of combat at maximum possible ear rupturing decibels.
I would build desal plants on the sea of Cortez and turn the desert all the way to Juarez into an agriculture belt and ask the US if they want have water to do the same on our side.
I would not oppose an economic zone on each side of the border with free movement. In San Diego area north on the 15 and the 5 we have border checks 55 miles north of the border. Draw the line there on checks and use the current border patrol to provide additional control at that point, drones, copters, etc. There would be free movement in the agriculture zone and at Mexicali/Calexico and SD/TJ.
If it was blasting Slayer, I’d hang around and mosh. See my other suggestion for what to do with speakers though.
"...play Slayer..."
“Aesthetically pleasing” on the USA side...on the Mexican side maybe photorealistic paintings of mounted and armed cowboys, military, militias, nuke explosions, speakers with wolf howls, land mine and rattlesnake sound effects blasting. Maybe several spots with large screen TVs showing old Mexican-American war and Alamo flicks. Maybe even a place to get leaflets that explain how to enter America legally if they really want to get in that bad for school or menial work and then work their way up to citizenship.
LOL! I like your thinking.
“If it was blasting Slayer, I’d hang around and mosh.”
I wouldn’t mind it either, but I doubt many of the Central Americans from the very rural areas would. On second thought, some of the cartel mules may like Slayer too. Need a totally disjointed mix of Slayer, Barry Manilow, babies crying and screaming, combat sounds, all cutting into one another at a few second intervals.
Agreed, although the idea seems to have been first "kited" by Ted Cruz.
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