Government seeks designs for 'physically imposing' border wall

Washington (CNN)It should be tall, climb-resistant, difficult to penetrate and blend into the landscape. Those are among the requirements for the US-Mexico border wall released by the federal government late Friday, kicking off a bidding process that will lead to one of the largest government construction projects in US history.

"The wall design shall be physically imposing in height," Customs and Border Protection outlined in the notice for contractors. That means 30 feet tall, although the officials wrote that "designs with heights of at least 18 feet may be acceptable."

The wall must also be impossible to climb without a ladder, and should make it difficult to use "common and more sophisticated climbing aids," like grappling hooks.

In addition, the wall must resist attempts to penetrate through or under it. The request specifically mentions it must successfully endure for at least 30 minutes -- but ideally more than four hours -- attempts to bore 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 media, Democrats and RINOs are always bitching about no armed military to guard the border, but their position has never been supported by Posse Comitatus or the actual history of the US military on our Mexican border.

Posse Comitatus applies to Americans in the country and not foreign invaders crossing our borders into the country. In fact, it is the federal goverment’s Constitutional duty (Article 4) to protect us from foreign invasion.

And from the time of the Mexican-American war (1846-48) until well into the 20th century, an armed US military was a constant presence on that border.

A non-censored look at history reveals many instances of the US military taking armed action on and even across the Mexican border against invaders of both the non-military and military type. For just two, check out the bandit Pancho Villa, General Pershing and Columbus NM and also the Battle of Ambos Nogales. During neither of these US military actions on the border was the US “at war with Mexico.”

But today armed Mexican military units are very active on the border and have even made many incursions across the border into the US - while open-border media and politicians sweep them under the rug and the US military is allowed to respond.

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