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Trump wants to build 30-foot-high wall at Mexican border
Associated Press ^ | 3/18/2017 | Alicia A Caldwell

Posted on 03/18/2017 10:11:14 AM PDT by simpson96

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration wants to build a 30-foot-high border wall that looks good from the north side and is difficult to climb or cut through, according to a pair of contract notices posted to a government website further detailing President Donald Trump's promise to build a "big, beautiful wall" at the Mexican border.

The notices were made public late Friday by Customs and Border Protection, the Homeland Security Department agency that will oversee the project and eventually patrol and maintain the wall. The proposals are due to the government by March 29.

One of the CBP contract requests calls for a solid concrete wall, while the other asks for proposals for a see-through structure. Both require the wall to sunk at least six feet into the ground and include 25- and 50-foot automated gates for pedestrians and vehicles. The proposed wall must also be built in a such a way that it would take at least an hour to cut through it with a "sledgehammer, car jack, pick axe, chisel, battery operated impact tools, battery operated cutting tools, Oxy/acetylene torch or other similar hand-held tools."

The government will award a contract based on 30-foot-wide sample walls that are to be built in San Diego.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: immigration; trumpstillwinning; trumpwinsagain
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To: simpson96

LOL! I hope Trump’s name is spelled out in gold colored letters. Just to annoy the left, illegals, and the globalists.


21 posted on 03/18/2017 10:27:38 AM PDT by dragonblustar (I love reading Trump tweets in the morning.)
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To: smileyface
I think the Israeli Border Wall is 25 feet high, so 30 feet isn't bad. LOL.

Bear in mind, that is just the structure. It doesn't include detection and surveillance devices.

The requirement that it has to withstand any breach attempt for at least an hour allows time for the Cavalry to arrive. Those UA 571-C Automated Sentry Guns would make a nice addition to the Border Wall.

22 posted on 03/18/2017 10:27:53 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Lizavetta
I haven't heard anything about Trump addressing these things.

Well, unless he tweeted it, or said it on live TV, why would you?

Have you heard about the thousands of new ICE agents and deportation judges going to the border and sanctuary cities?

23 posted on 03/18/2017 10:28:30 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: Lizavetta

In my opinion Trump, and the Republicans, are wrong about a few things.
If our immigration laws were enforced across the board there would be no need for a wall. And take away the not really stated anywhere part where any birth here is a citizen. Yeah, I know that’s an uphill battle but it’s the right way to go.
Health insurance. Not their job.


24 posted on 03/18/2017 10:30:30 AM PDT by sheana
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

If he has said these things please point me in that direction.


25 posted on 03/18/2017 10:30:34 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: simpson96
30 feet??? That doesn't seem high enough...60 feet with 30 feet of ‘electrical’ wiring on top, plus 100 feet deep of ‘electrical’ current to prevent ‘tunneling’ under...that sounds good...
26 posted on 03/18/2017 10:31:17 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: smileyface
Yes, 30 ft does not seem that high.

We wouldn't need a wall at all if we just enforced our damn immigration laws and ended birthright citizenship.

Make life here so difficult for illegals and they'll stay home.

27 posted on 03/18/2017 10:31:21 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: smileyface

“Yes, 30 ft does not seem that high.”

It certainly beats two rows of barbed wire. Even cattle laugh at that. 30 feet gets pretty high when you’re at the top of the wall looking down...trying to figure out how to get down, trying to figure out how to get across the next barrier (it will be double-fenced), and then trying to figure out how to do all that before the feds sweep you up, since the sensors on top of the wall tell them where you are.

Or another way to look at it - ask the Palestinians, people that have a MUCH GREATER INCENTIVE to breach their wall (of similar height), since it means Jihad and killing of Jews...yet they’re stuck on their side.

As others have noted, a wall is simply a FORCE MULTIPLIER...makes it much easier for the feds to round up the ones thinking they can cross...and funnels them together.


28 posted on 03/18/2017 10:33:05 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: simpson96

Then there are the tunnels deep underground, fall below the few feet the wall penetrates - ask the Israelis about the Hamas tunnels ...


29 posted on 03/18/2017 10:33:50 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: simpson96

We have to control our borders.


30 posted on 03/18/2017 10:33:51 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: simpson96

Never mind aesthetics - the wall needs to have towers or other provisions for sentries at regular intervals, and all funding for DHS must include a budget for wall sentries. An unmanned wall will simply be dug through or dug under.


31 posted on 03/18/2017 10:34:48 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: simpson96

They better have that wall deep enough to stop the many tunnels that go from Mexico and San Diego among other places as well. I am sure Trump has a handle on all the possibilities of screwing up the wall by idiots.


32 posted on 03/18/2017 10:36:36 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: puppypusher

Not to be mean spirited let’s add broken cervesa bottles embedded in the concrete top as a touch of home, where rich villas employ such, followed up with the razor wire.

Bonus-—we get rid of a crap load of Corona bottles.


33 posted on 03/18/2017 10:37:03 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Drew68
We need the wall because the first Democrat President will stop enforcement. But you've been told this how many times?

Yes ICE does need to step up illegal labor enforcement and welfare abuse enforcement.

34 posted on 03/18/2017 10:37:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: puppypusher

35 posted on 03/18/2017 10:39:08 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Lizavetta

I haven’t heard anything about Trump addressing these things.

He doesn’t have control of what states do. He is trying to address the sanctuary city problem but of course getting push back. As far as taking benefits from illegals, Congress needs to pass something or at least individual states need to and of course be ready for the judges to tear it all down.


36 posted on 03/18/2017 10:40:25 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: sheana
If our immigration laws were enforced across the board there would be no need for a wall

You state the precise reason why we need an apolitical wall. Takes the politics out of the equation. It isn't a cure all but it is a start.

37 posted on 03/18/2017 10:40:55 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Lizavetta
federal agencies gear up to hire thousands more border patrol and enforcement agents to comply with President Donald Trump's Jan. 25 executive order. The order greatly expands law enforcement agents' power to apprehend and detain undocumented immigrants.

-search.yahoo.com

38 posted on 03/18/2017 10:42:05 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: smileyface

Agree. The Israeli wall is 26 feet high, so 30 is higher.

We’re the USA - we can do at least a 40 foot high wall!

Do I hear 50?


39 posted on 03/18/2017 10:42:29 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: simpson96
Maybe there is a way to start burying radioactive waste that would penetrate the ground without contaminating any aquifers and shield it with lead on the American side. Give a good dose to the tunnel rats and publicize it to drive the illegal trade to the surface, where it could be dealt with with surface munitions, military personnel, etc.

We have to deal with this in a total war footing--because that's what it is.

40 posted on 03/18/2017 10:42:41 AM PDT by jimbug
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