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The Department of Homeland Security plans to start building prototypes for Mexico border wall this summer
Border wall at Tijuana and San Diego border Image via wikimedia
Congress may not have agreed to President Trump's $2.6 billion budget proposal for his much-touted border wall, but that has not stopped Customs and Border Protection from preparing for the first stage of the project; testing prototypes for the border protection.
— Daily Mail
According to Ronald Vitiello, Customs and Border Protection’s acting deputy commissioner, $20 million, allocated from other programs, have been used to pay four to eight companies that will be contracted to produce prototypes for
the border wall with
Mexico. To be completed within 30 days in
San Diego those prototypes will then serve as models for the roughly 2,000-mile border.
More than 600 companies submitted designs for the wall before a March deadline.
“Think of it,” Trump told a crowd at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “The higher it goes, the more valuable it is. Pretty good imagination, right?”
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