Contractors Begin Building Prototypes For Trump's Border Wall

[bathroommonkey76]

Source: NPR

After months of competition and preparation, contractors broke ground Tuesday on eight prototypes for President Trump's long-promised border wall. U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that the companies would have about 30 days to complete construction on their prototypes in San Diego.

"We are committed to securing our border and that includes constructing border walls," CBP's acting deputy commissioner, Ronald Vitiello, said in a statement Tuesday.

"Our multi-pronged strategy to ensure the safety and security of the American people includes barriers, infrastructure, technology and people. Moving forward with the prototype enables us to continue to incorporate all the tools necessary to secure our border."

Link to tweet

Six contractors from across the country have been selected to build the eight prototypes, half of which will be constructed of concrete and the other half of "other materials." The walls are to range between 18 and 30 feet high and succeed in one prevailing goal: "deter illegal crossings in the area in which they are constructed."

Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/26/553786714/contractors-begin-building-prototypes-for-trump-s-border-wall

[procon]

1. 30 foot high? What is Trump trying to keep out, Godzilla? nt

[IcyPeas]

2. talk about an exercise in futility. there will be no wall. /nt

[Blues Heron]

3. Pic here

[sarge43]

4. More corporate welfare. Surprise, surprise.

Yet there's no money for Puerto Rico.

[trof]

7. Or universal healthcare

[jmowreader]

5. How do you say "backhoe" in Mexican Spanish?

"Hello, my name is Donald Trump, president of the United States. It is important to me to keep Mexican marijuana and their lazy citizens out of my country, so I spent $100 billion my people needed for other things constructing a 30-foot-high wall between our countries."

"Hello, my name is Izmael Zambada Garcia, president of the Sinaloa Cartel. It is important to me to continue to ship Mexican marijuana and hard-working Mexican citizens who only seek a better life, so I took twenty pesos out of petty cash, bought a shovel and had one of my soldiers dig a tunnel under that idiot Trump's 30-foot wall."

[Marthe48]

6. Send the money to Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico

and help them get back to normal.

The futility is a monument to stupidity.

[Bengus81]

8. Oh my....30 feet. Hard to get a drone packed with H to that lofty altitude........

[Cold War Spook]

9. Where did he get the idea

that Mexicans don't know how to build boats?

[marybourg]

10. Or ladders.