Posted on 12/28/2017 11:46:03 AM PST by jdsteel
They stand like surreal monuments in the California scrubland: prototypes of Donald Trump's proposed "big, beautiful" border wall between the US and Mexico.
The eight 30ft high slabs are the first tangible part of the controversial project that the US President says will help solve America's immigration problems.
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Photo of the year would be Trump attempting to scale the walls himself.....
Bump!
I’m not interested in prototypes and repeated stories of prototypes.
Build the mother ****er already.
I’d like to see photos of each prototype individually. Curious about what would make one better than another.
Mitch McConnell doesn’t want a wall.
And for the people who say it can’t be done.
The border is 2,000 miles long. So 30 feet high.
Interstate Highway System is 46,876 miles long. And At least 40 feet across.
If we were able to do this in the 50’s and 60’s. We certainly can build this wall in 3-8 years if we really wanted to.
How far below ground does it go?
2000 miles divided by 8 prototypes. I suspect they would ALL do fine compared to what’s in place now, so that’s only 250 miles per wall. I say award every one of them 250 miles and just see how they all work - testing while on the job.
There will be so much money saved by not paying for the illegals stopped, no need to worry about replacing a section or two down the road.
Yes, let’s build an untested wall that’s high maintenance, rapid decay, stupid hard/expensive to repair (because we didn’t test it) that the Democrats can eventually say “well, it’s a safety hazard because it’s falling apart and costs too much money, let’s tear it down” and get rid of. Brilliant!!!!!!
How about instead we test out some wall types, decide on the most cost effective and longest lasting one (instead of just padding the pockets of some corrupt contractor with a government connection) and build that?
Modularity, ease of repair, cost, difficulty of scaling (as in climb), visibility, speed of construction... lots of ways they could differ.
How hard would it be to bore through steel-reinforced concrete, or for the designs with steel at ground level, torch cut, plasma cut, or even battery-powered cutting wheel your way through?
Be certain and absolutely sure that the entire wall is fully paid for and under way before there is any daca deal. We will not settle for chain migration prohibition ( that is a secondary requirement). We want the WALL for Daca , not some nebulous lie of “increased security” We don’t fall for that crap again. we want the wall and ALL OF THE WALL or “no bueno”. The promise over and over was the “wall not “ increased security” To hell with that!!
Please dont tell lil Annie Coulter about this she loves her “Trump’s never going to build the wall” fantasies so dearly.
Pick one and get to building.
Let us they need to be double walls. This way when they climb the outer wall an alarm can be triggered and we can arrest them before they finish climbing the second wall.
One would think the Israelis have superb technology to detect underground tunnels.
I’m sure Bibi would provide such to The Donald.
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