The Briefing Room
General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: corbe on May 07, 2020, 02:28:48 pm
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Trump order to paint border wall black could drive up cost $500 million or more
The president’s determination to have the border wall coated in black has fluctuated during the past several years. He has insisted that the dark color will enhance the wall's forbidding appearance and leave the steel too hot to touch during summer months.
by Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post May 6, 202015 hours ago
President Trump is once more pushing to have his border wall painted black, a design change that is projected to add at least $500 million in costs, according to government contracting estimates obtained by The Washington Post.
The president’s determination to have the steel bollards coated in black has fluctuated during the past several years, and military commanders and border officials believed as recently as last fall that they had finally talked him out of it. They consider the black paint unnecessary, costly and a significant long-term maintenance burden, and they left it out of the original U.S. Customs and Border Protection design specifications.
Trump has not let go of the idea, insisting that the dark color will enhance its forbidding appearance and leave the steel too hot to touch during summer months. During a border wall meeting at the White House last month amid the coronavirus pandemic, the president told senior adviser Jared Kushner and aides to move forward with the paint job and to seek out cost estimates, according to four administration officials with knowledge of the meeting.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/06/trump-border-wall-paint-it-black/ (https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/06/trump-border-wall-paint-it-black/)
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Democrats immediately respond with offer to paint the wall at half the cost by using.............’migrant’ labor.
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Oh good .. anothher opportunity to post this good news --- and they're building through the lockdown happy77
Trump's Wall from Sea to Shining Sea
Kenneth Frantz, Summit Peak Drones, Mar 20, 2020, YouTube
The ENTIRE Trump border wall filmed for the first time! Not just a few peeks, but ALL the construction underway from San Diego, Calif to Brownsville, Texas. Now the largest construction project in the USA, it may be the largest in the world when measuring by total production per year. 97% of what you will see is my own filming content. Just one guy 10 days on the road with some drones and a pickup truck.
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piVd_6VPpyM#)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piVd_6VPpyM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piVd_6VPpyM)
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Oh good .. anothher opportunity to post this good news --- and they're building through the lockdown happy77
Cool! Thanks for posting! @Right_in_Virginia
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Cool! Thanks for posting! @Right_in_Virginia
:thumbsup: @mrpotatohead
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Any deterrent that will keep immigrants from climbing over the wall is welcomed. There's already been reports of holes in the wall. It takes an industrial cutting torch to get through the iron and a jack hammer to get through the concrete in the steel but it's happening. The steel wall tubes are filled with concrete. Black paint would be a good touch.