Trump wants to build 30-foot-high wall at Mexican border

[yallerdawg]

Sorry - it just never stops coming, does it?

Source: WaPo, by Alicia A,. Caldwell

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.”

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Trump has bragged in recent days that the wall is ahead of schedule, though it’s unclear from the latest contract notices if any firms have submitted wall proposals or if any such submissions have been rejected.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/trump-wants-to-build-30-foot-high-wall-at-mexican-border/2017/03/18/799d494c-0bf0-11e7-bd19-fd3afa0f7e2a_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_ap-wall-110pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.1a9a51b7fbfd

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. In other news, 32' ladders selling like hotcakes in Mexico.

[dhol82]

2. Brisk ads for ability to tunnel at 7 feet

What a bunch of maroons!

[wcmagumba]

3. Hmmm...

something like this might happen:

[delisen]

4. The pharaohs built useless tombs, the trump builds useless walls

What am I to do asked the pharaoh of his advisors. labor is underemployed and restless. I fear they will turn on me and the ruling class. We will be massacred.

No problem said the advisors, start a massive public works project. Build a useless tomb in the shape of a pyramid. It will keep them occupied for a lifetime.

But a a massive tomb is useless, said the pharaoh, all a dead body needs is a hole in the sand.

Yes, but pyramid-building solves the excess labor problem and we escape the wrath of the people.

[panader0]

5. There was a high up Border Patrol agent on a local radio yesterday.

He said that walls aren't good because the agents can't see through them.
That they had one section of fence near Naco (a local border town) that was
solid with no cross-border view, and that was the worst area for the BP.
The wall is a joke. It won't do anything except make money for a few.
The budget wants to cut funds to the Coast Guard, who guard a lot more miles of our border,
to partly pay for this boondoggle.

[yallerdawg]

10. I think one of the Request for Proposal designs...

allows for some kind of peepholes made of see-through material? And a shorter wall? Called the "other" wall proposal - I can't look again, government gobbledygook can't be done on a Saturday night.

And what shocked me is these proposals are not being graded on just cost, but a subjective standard of what they like the best. Also, "Buy American" requirement unless "Buy Mexican" is a better deal.

[tblue37]

6. Will there also be armed guards in towers with shoot-to-kill orders?

[smirkymonkey]

7. I swear, I am just living in a bad nightmare that I can't wake up from.

People are going to starve and die from lack of medical care and this stupid shitgibbon wants to build a multi-billion dollar wall that will serve no other purpose than to be a monument to his stupid fucking ego?

Someone wake me up when it's over.

[Eugene]

8. Mexican smugglers routinely scale the existing 26-foot walls.

This is a colossal waste.

[UTUSN]

9. With those long-barreled compensating weapons