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Trump’s Mexican Border Wall: See The Proposals
KFSM-TV ^ | April 8, 2017 | CNN Wire

Posted on 04/08/2017 6:36:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The wall along the Mexican border doesn’t have to be made of boring concrete slabs.

It might be a “smart wall” filed with fiber optic cables designed to detect anyone trying to climb over or tunnel underneath it. Or it could resemble a medieval castle, with a notched top and turrets. It could be made of solar panels, or even be a work of art.

These are among the ideas submitted to the Department of Homeland Security, which is considering bids to build a barrier of some kind between Mexico and the United States.

This round of bids is actually to build a prototype for a wall, the first step in President Donald Trump’s much repeated promise to build a border wall....

(Excerpt) Read more at 5newsonline.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: acbeachpatroltroll; borders; bordersecurity; buildthewall; first100days; trump; trump45
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1 posted on 04/08/2017 6:36:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just get started.

That is my point. Just build.


2 posted on 04/08/2017 6:40:00 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

DarkPulse Technologies wants to build a wall that has fiber optics embedded, in order detect attempts to tunnel underneath, climb over or breach the wall.
Thus far, I like Dark Pulse!

3 posted on 04/08/2017 6:42:33 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would like to see it where some sections are steel bars or concrete columns going deep in the ground where small animals can travel back and forth. I just want to make sure we have a good wildlife habitat too.


4 posted on 04/08/2017 6:43:39 PM PDT by boycott
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To: boycott

Whatever wildlife there is has habitat on both sides. It will make no difference there will just be a wall dividing the territories. It will just divide the populations not destroy their habitats.


5 posted on 04/08/2017 6:52:52 PM PDT by tiki
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

George W. Bush spent $1 billion on a virtual wall instead of a physical wall. It failed miserably.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/us/politics/15fence.html

Human beings have thousands of years of experience constructing barriers to restrict the movement of other humans. Spending more time studying concepts is a delaying tactic. If construction isn’t underway in 6 months or less, the wall will never be built. GOP congress critters are not going allow the wall to be an issue during the 2018 campaign. Mexico is not going to build or pay for the wall. If Congress doesn’t appropriate money to construct the wall this year when it votes on the 2018 budget, there will be no wall.


6 posted on 04/08/2017 6:55:36 PM PDT by Soul of the South
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To: cba123

The solar wall ideas just look like a solar panel supply for Mexico.


7 posted on 04/08/2017 6:58:41 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: tiki

Border Fences Pose Threats to Wildlife on U.S.-Mexico Border, Study Shows

https://news.utexas.edu/2011/07/12/border_wildlife


8 posted on 04/08/2017 6:58:50 PM PDT by boycott
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To: onyx

That does look the best so far. I do like the idea of solar panels to defray the cost, maybe they could add them.


9 posted on 04/08/2017 6:59:00 PM PDT by ~Pandora
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No matter what they decide, add a moat and hungry alligators. The water will be provided by the tears of Our Enemies, the Socialist Democrat Party.

Yep. I’m kinda mean that way. Come on, Mr. President! We’re nearly 80 days in and I have YET to see one head on a pike on the White House Lawn. Git Bizzy!

:)


10 posted on 04/08/2017 7:05:08 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: boycott

“I just want to make sure we have a good wildlife habitat too.”

Prolly the only way to ensure wildlife can continue to cross the border in key areas with proven migration routes, is to initially have gaps in the wall, perhaps 50-100 feet wide, where border agents would have to be present 24/7, as well as wildlife biologists to study IF any animals even use the crossing. If certain animals are not using the opening, or in sufficient enough numbers, then that opening can be closed with the same sort of wall that’s built in that area.


11 posted on 04/08/2017 7:06:33 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here's a rough idea for a wall. To man it we can offer convicted felons a choice. Either go to jail/death row or lifetime service manning the border. Those who flee from duty will be hunted down and beheaded in public.


12 posted on 04/08/2017 7:06:54 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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need machine gun turrets

build the wall NOW.


13 posted on 04/08/2017 7:07:07 PM PDT by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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TRUMP’S MEXICO BORDER WALL IS UNLIKELY TO STRETCH “FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA,” SAYS JOHN KELLY
14 posted on 04/08/2017 7:09:04 PM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
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To: onyx
DarkPulse Technologies wants to build a wall that has fiber optics embedded...

That sounds like a great idea. I'd like to see it married with a few of the best other ideas to create a state-of-the-art barrier!

15 posted on 04/08/2017 7:09:34 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Build it like Hadrians wall with troop emplacements every few miles. Out of super hard East German concrete.

CC


16 posted on 04/08/2017 7:10:04 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was thinking more of the Great Wall of Trump.
A six lane expressway with exits and entrances
only on the American side with rest stops and
observation platforms every so many miles
and 40 feet high with a good overhang on the
south side.


17 posted on 04/08/2017 7:10:10 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.magal-s3.com/53836.html

There’s no reason to spend billions.


18 posted on 04/08/2017 7:11:47 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Art, hyperloops? You can tell libs are trying to screw things up already. Gun turrets, a double wall with mine field between, super tall, super hard, extending down to bedrock, no hand holds, no cracks, barb wire everywhere, etc., that’s the sort of proposal that should win. Tell the libs to take a hike.


19 posted on 04/08/2017 7:12:10 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: boycott

I don’t believe all that crapola. I’ve seen how incompetently they have counted species around here. The only problem I see is the jaguarondi, its habitat is in Mexico although occasionally one will stray north. They would need to be captured and deported, pun intended.


20 posted on 04/08/2017 7:14:26 PM PDT by tiki
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