The Mexicans still haven’t paid for it, and because it’s not really a wall, they don’t have to?… Individual-1 now says “many federal workers” want it as well.
This is the impeccable logic of stunt-POTUS*, much like that realtor telling you that the brick building that fills your apartment window is an ocean view because the prior tenant was Clark Kent.
Is this bollard-doggle the means to restart some US steel-making plants (45* keeps claiming that there are as many as nine new ones now, where the reality is that one or two have been unshuttered).
Only the cantaloupe-calved would scale such a barrier, others being forced to dig tunnels or, wait for it ... overstay their visas.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen unveiled two new miles of border fencing on Friday and declared it the first new section of the President Donald Trump's border wall.
"It's different than a fence in that it also has technology. It's a full wall system," she said in Calexico, Calif., when asked about whether the 30-foot tall barrier made of steel bollards was actually just a fence. "It's a wall, this is what the president has asked us to do. It’s part of a system."
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It’s a “full wall system”:
It’s a full Thirty-foot Ladder:
It’s a full Thirty-foot Rope Ladder:
TRUMP, speaking Tuesday: "We gave out 115 yesterday, and we gave it out at a great price."
THE FACTS: It's unclear where the figure of 115 miles is coming from.
According to DHS , the March funding from Congress will pay for 84 miles (135 kilometers) along the southern border, including the 33 miles (53 kilometers) for Texas. And if the Trump administration gets the $5 billion it's requested, DHS says it would build 215 miles (346 kilometers) that it considers the "highest priority," include 159 miles (256 kilometers) in Texas.
Whether DHS got a "great price" on the 33 miles is up for debate. Two contracts announced by CBP to build 14 of those miles (23 kilometers) total $313 million, or roughly $22 million per mile ($14 million per kilometer).
There's already 653 miles (1,051 kilometers) of border fence in place, built under the Secure Fence Act passed in 2006. CBP estimated in 2015 that the total cost to build that mileage was $2.3 billion, or roughly $3.5 million a mile ($2.2 million per kilometer). Many of those miles were built with less complicated design or on easier terrain than where CBP wants to build now.
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TRUMP, asked Tuesday who received the contracts: "Different people. Highly bid."
THE FACTS: CBP announced in November that Galveston, Texas-based company SLSCO won the two contracts with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for projects in the Rio Grande Valley. Contract notices posted online say that three bids were solicited online and received for each contract. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working with CBP to plan and build the wall.
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