Posted on 09/26/2017 6:35:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Contractors have begun building eight prototypes of US President Donald Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico.
The building process will last about 30 days, Customs and Border Protection said.
Each prototype will be up to nine metres high and nine metres long.
Bidding documents say four of the prototypes are to be solid concrete and four are to be made of "other materials".
Mr Trump said on Friday that the wall should be see-through, appearing to cast doubt on the concrete designs.
Funding to extend the wall beyond its distance of 1,046 kilometres is in doubt.
Democrats have balked at Trump's $2 billion request to replace 22 kilometres in San Diego and build 96 kilometres in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings.
Meters shmeeters, let’s talk feet and miles, this is America.
It is OUR wall, not just the President’s wall.
Cool! How many hungry alligators can fit in that moat between the fences?
...Controversial?
No bias there. / sarcasm
You don’t want alligators. Their hide is to valuble and the Mexicans would kill them for the leather.
Piranha’s, on the other hand, might work very well!
Foreign paper. They had to translate it into Australian.
These are just the prototypes so he can choose. He’ll probably let, ‘We The People’ VOTE on it via Twitter, LOL!
I want a BIG concrete wall, and if you happen to make it over, you land in a moat teaming with Crocodiles and Cottonmouth Snakes!
But, I’m MEAN as a Junkyard Dog. ;)
PING to Post #10. :)
But, I’m MEAN as a Junkyard Dog. ;)
ROFL!!! ME ALSO!!!
Why? Build it out of reinforced concrete and use cameras to see what's going taking place on the other side. Want cockroaches to slither through? Leave cracks in your wall.
Reinforced concrete can be used and still have a see through feature.
This is not "Donald Trump's" border wall.
it is MINE
Actually, it’s the border patrol agents asking for the see-through walls, so I’ll bow to their experience and judgment.
The Mexican mafia measures in meters — the wall is built to keep THEM out.
WHAAAAT? No broken glass on top of the wall?
Make it with Liberal tears
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