The Trump administration has already started building the border wall

Vox ^ | September 29, 2017 | Tara Golshan

[gspurlock]

Let’s see what happens in the mid-terms.

[vette6387]

“That doesn’t mean there won’t be many roadblocks along the way.”

Cue the GOPe! They are THE roadblock!

[jmaroneps37]

Can someone please tell Lil Annie The Demented Parrot Coulter about this. Poor menopausal Annie can’t seem to understand that she has to generate a new issue to attack Trump with.

[WVMnteer]

Combined, these sections are the length of an Arena League Football Field. So let’s not get too excited yet.

[MrEdd]

Funny that huge visable pieces of wall are appearing just as we go into the midterms. Almost as if someone shielded them for ann unveiling at an opportune time.

[trebb]

We know who to blame for all the stuff that isn’t getting done - glad that Trump has energy and broad shoulders.

[treetopsandroofs]

“Can someone please tell Lil Annie The Demented Parrot Coulter about this. Poor menopausal Annie can’t seem to understand that she has to generate a new issue to attack Trump with.”

Ann Coulter and Jimmie “Kid Dyn-o-MITE” Walker have to maintain standards.

https://www.earnthenecklace.com/ann-coulter-boyfriend-who-is-ann-coulter-dating/

[Lurkinanloomin]

there aren’t that many Republicans in Congress that want to prioritize funding the wall in the first place
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We need new Republicans.

The ones we have are only interested in passing amnesty for illegal aliens and their employers.

[proust]

Prototype that wall!!
Prototype that wall!!

[forgotten man]

They are building prototype models near the existing fence on Otay Mesa in San Diego. They are not building the actual wall itself. There are a few different companies bidding on the project and they are showing their designs.

[yoe]

This is a map of the La Paz Agreement...

On August 14, 1983, (the United States and Mexico) entered into the United States–Mexico Agreement on Cooperation for the Protection and Improvement of the Environment in the Border Area, known as the La Paz Agreement.....

(Monitoring Colonias Along the United States–Mexico Border)

"HUD defines colonias as rural neighborhoods within 150 miles of the border that lack adequate infrastructure or housing, as well as other basic services. "....lack of law and order also. I have no idea how all this fits into the wall POTUS wants to continue...the EPA figures heavily into the La Paz Agreement, so how, if ever this will affect President Trump's wall...will remain a mystery...these little Colonias are in a "no mans land", subject to no law.

[Pelham]

San Diego got a real border wall in the 1990s. That was during Clinton.

Illegal immigration crossing that sector fell by 95%.

That’s a real number. Not an exaggeration.

Border walls work. It’s why Bush junior didn’t build any, because his wing of the GOP has never put America first. And they will fight Trump just as fiercely as the Democrats.

[Jeff Chandler]

They should sell advertising on the wall.

[montag813]

Each prototype is estimated to cost between $400,000 to $500,000, funded through the $20 million Congress authorized for the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year, and previously through the 2016 budget.

Why can't Trump just draw funds from departments specified by the Secure Fence Act of 2006?

[jjotto]

Without looking it up, I believe the appropriations for that had an expiration date that has passed.

[Nea Wood]

Mexico already said it is not paying for the wall...

They'll pay for it indirectly. Even if we ended up paying for it, it's still worth it. We're paying billions for illegals now.

[montag813]

Without looking it up, I believe the appropriations for that had an expiration date that has passed.

What I mean is that Trump should just ACT as if it has been reauthorized, take funding from other areas in those departments (DHS, CBP, etc) and redirect it to the wall. Then let Congress SUE him to stop it. NO Republican would even dream of it.

[WeWaWes]

They are building prototypes nothing more. This means nothing as far as building the ‘wall.’

[2ndDivisionVet]

Not true. They are repairing and revitalizing sections of the wall, replacing simple barbed wire fences with actual structures, buying up or seizing property and dealing with Indian tribes. Things are getting done.