The Trump administration has awarded contracts to build four border wall prototypes using non-concrete "other materials," U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday.
The contracts came a week after the administration announced four companies that will build prototypes of concrete border walls. In all, the eight prototype walls will cost about $3.6 million.
— The Hill
Adding to the four firms already selected to build border wall prototypes last week, Trump now also contracted another round of companies that will specifically build non-concrete prototypes of his favorite campaign promise.
By encouraging 'other materials' border wall designs, Trump hopes to eliminate concrete's main drawback — its opaqueness — and thus save countless lives of clueless border flâneurs potentially being hit by large sacks of drugs hurled over the wall from the Southern side. As he explained to reporters: "As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don't see them — they hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It's over. As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall."
The four companies chosen to tackle this challenge and erect the non-concrete 'other materials' prototypes are:
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