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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has asked contractors for help making President Trumps border wall more difficult to climb over and cut through, an acknowledgment that the design currently being installed across hundreds of miles of the U.S.-Mexico boundary remains vulnerable.
The new request for information notice that CBP posted gives federal contractors until June 12 to suggest new anti-breaching and anti-climbing technology and tools, while also inviting proposals for private party construction that would allow investors and activists to acquire land, build a barrier on it and sell the whole thing to the government.
Trump continues to campaign for reelection on a promise to complete nearly 500 miles of new barrier along the border with Mexico by the end of 2020, but administration officials have scaled back that goal in recent weeks. The president has ceased promoting the $15 billion barrier as impenetrable in the months since The Washington Post reported smuggling crews have been sawing through new sections of the structure using inexpensive power tools.
In a statement, CBP officials said their new request for information first reported by the KJZZ Fronteras Desk in Arizona does not amount to an admission that the current design is inadequate or flawed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-border-wall-vulnerable/2020/06/04/ccd40e5e-a66e-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html
House of Roberts
(5,189 posts)and a couple of batteries, plus the right blades.
Zoonart
(11,887 posts)who will get the contract to paint it? Wait until someone has ten minutes to explore the letting of the contracts.
Talk about looters.
Chainfire
(17,663 posts)that our Southern neighbors are fools. Walls are built to be defeated.
yellowcanine
(35,702 posts)Don't remember the details, should have saved it.
ret5hd
(20,534 posts)Sharks with lasers on their heads is the only fuckin answer!
2naSalit
(86,843 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,497 posts)2naSalit
(86,843 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)crickets
(25,987 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,170 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,878 posts)EndlessWire
(6,573 posts)I thought they were saying it was the WH wall. I had these crazy pictures in my head of people cutting that wall down. How resourceful those kids are, bringing saws to our protest and getting through the wall!
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