Good day all. There have been a few “Fair Weather” Trump supporters who have been mouthing off that the Trump Wall wasn’t yet completed. (I’m looking at you Ann Coulter!) Since President Trump took office, there has been a lot of behind the scenes work done on the wall.
The U.S. Government has been surveying the southern border, looking at the terrain, talking with property owners, and basically doing all the preliminary work needed to begin construction. Now the next phase is underway, testing various construction techniques and determining which one will work best at keeping criminal aliens out. Here are the details from Fox News:
The administration has selected four companies to begin building prototypes for President Trump’s border wall plans, announcing the decision Thursday in what officials said was the “first tangible result” of months of planning for the wall.
All four of the prototypes will be concrete and are meant to be backup walls, set off from the border by 150 feet. Non-concrete prototypes, which might be more appropriate for the border itself, will be announced over the next week.
Test-building will take place this fall in San Diego, setting up a full round of wall-building for next year — if Mr. Trump can get Congress to appropriate the money.
And considering that Congress is filled with Proglodytes and RINO’s who will not defend this nation, getting them to appropriate the funds may be a problem. Well there is a solution to that problem, one that doesn’t involve a lynch mob.
“We were looking for a substantial border barrier,” Border Patrol Chief Ronald Vitiello said in announcing the selections in Washington.
With land mines and machine gun towers and lots of razor wire I hope?
The test walls will cover a 30-foot section of the border, will run 18 to 30 feet tall and are meant to look imposing.
Good! The more imposing, the better. And, we can put solar panels on them to help with the energy costs. Free energy and blocking illegals and drug smugglers. Win Win! Now if there were only a way to have a moat with either hungry piranhas or sharks with laser beams on their heads…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will test the barriers to see how readily smugglers could cut through them and whether they can deter efforts to climb over them.
That’s what the land mines are for. If they get to close, BOOM!
CBP also wants to see how well the designs can accommodate the technology that agents say is just as important as the wall when it comes to getting a handle on border security.
That would be security cameras and automated gun turrets I take it?
There is already enough money to build the prototypes, but Mr. Trump is struggling to win support for wall construction in the 2018 spending bills pending in Congress.
This is one of the reasons Congress’s approval ratings are lower than a worm’s anus. As it is, I suspect that a number of RINO’s are going to face Primary challenges in 2018. These idiots still think that Eric Cantor was an anomaly.
Next we have the Democrats stating flat out they will not only fight funding of the wall, they will do everything they can to aid Criminal Aliens coming to the United States. After all, these are the true constituents of the Proglodytes, not actual American Citizens. Also, they don’t want to cause any inconvenience for the drug smugglers. Even Liberals have to follow a budget and a cheap supply of Cocaine is a priority for them.
Democrats have said they will oppose any bill that includes a penny for the wall.
Wall opponents, meanwhile, said Mr. Trump’s timing on the announcement sent a bad signal amid relief efforts in Texas after Hurricane Harvey.
“The wall prototypes will be literal concrete reminders of this administration’s harsh plot to target immigrant families for deportations that would shatter lives and shred the fabric of tight-knit border communities,” said Dan Millis, borderlands organizer for the Sierra Club.
Mr. Trump proposed a concrete wall during his election campaign and vowed that Mexico would foot the bill. He has since said U.S. taxpayers will have to fund the wall but is still working on ways to make Mexico reimburse the U.S.
While he said during the campaign that a wall would run the length of the border, as president he has said only 700 to 900 miles will likely need fencing. It wasn’t clear whether that was total or in addition to the 354 miles already covered by a fence.
Here, I agree that we don’t need a wall running the length of the border. With careful surveying, we can leave some areas open. Now why would we do this? For one very simple reason. If you try and cross these particular areas, you will die. All that’s there is miles and miles of…miles and miles. No water, no roads, nothing but hot, scorching desert. Now all we need to do is get the prototyping and testing down, burn some congress critters feet when we hold them to the fire, and get the wall built!
Thatisall
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