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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: immigration; trumpstillwinning; trumpwinsagain
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

The wall is going to have guards. The wall is a force multiplier, ask the Israelis how beautifully their wall works.


61 posted on 03/18/2017 11:04:24 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: HombreSecreto

I admire the Israelis but we can do better.


62 posted on 03/18/2017 11:04:27 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: simpson96
30 feet is the magic number whereby a human being is most likely to die from a fall. Falling from a height less than that is more likely to be survivable.

Good move, Trump! Now lets see how hard the RINO GOP fights him on this.

63 posted on 03/18/2017 11:04:30 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Feminism DESTROYED females)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Whatever floats your boat. I will hold it against them.


64 posted on 03/18/2017 11:06:22 AM PDT by sheana
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To: simpson96

Now add armed guard towers( employ ex military) and a decent minefield and our southern border is secure.


65 posted on 03/18/2017 11:06:36 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: SandRat

Razor wire Electrified to kill. Does that sound too mean?


66 posted on 03/18/2017 11:07:02 AM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: simpson96
Here are direct links to the actual notices which the AP failed to provide:

Solid Concrete Border Wall RFP

Other Border Wall RFP

67 posted on 03/18/2017 11:09:47 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
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To: simpson96
Mexican border 2020


68 posted on 03/18/2017 11:11:00 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: simpson96; hal ogen; Berlin_Freeper

China’s Great wall is 25 feet.


69 posted on 03/18/2017 11:11:21 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: simpson96

“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’.”

Don’t forget the electrified razor wire on top.


70 posted on 03/18/2017 11:14:34 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
30 feet is the magic number whereby a human being is most likely to die from a fall. Falling from a height less than that is more likely to be survivable.

30 feet is insufficient. The ideal height would be a fatal fall from halfway up the ladder or rope - 50 feet, so the wall should be 100 feet high.

71 posted on 03/18/2017 11:18:41 AM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: Mich Patriot
A sniper nest every 1000 feet would be good too.

These would do the job.


72 posted on 03/18/2017 11:19:45 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("Prepare Now - You never know when today really is the day before.....)
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To: Spirochete

I would like a design that is 30’ but expandable to 50 feet if 30’ is found insufficient.


73 posted on 03/18/2017 11:20:16 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: simpson96

74 posted on 03/18/2017 11:20:27 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: HotKat
Razor wire Electrified to kill. Does that sound too mean?

Broken glass embedded in the top too.

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75 posted on 03/18/2017 11:22:23 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("Prepare Now - You never know when today really is the day before.....)
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To: simpson96
Berlin:


76 posted on 03/18/2017 11:23:44 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: simpson96

and I LOVE that the samples walls will be judged in sanctuary central, California!


77 posted on 03/18/2017 11:25:24 AM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: simpson96

top it with coils of concertina wire.


78 posted on 03/18/2017 11:26:24 AM PDT by euram
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To: simpson96
More West Bank:


79 posted on 03/18/2017 11:26:32 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: simpson96

"Show me a 30 foot fence and I'll show you a 40 foot Mexican."


80 posted on 03/18/2017 11:26:47 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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