Did you know that the Southern Border Wall is already being funded, proposals are being considered, and some initial construction is already under way?
Of course, you didn’t. The media is too busy obsessing over Russiagate fake news.
According to the Washington Examiner (via Newsmax) officials are looking into multiple proposals, site studies are ongoing, and money is available to work on the project, according to Byron York, writing in the Examiner.
The work on the wall is under the auspices of Trump’s Jan. 25 executive order, which put forth the Trump administration policy for “the immediate construction of a physical wall,” the Examiner report said.
The order also cited the Secure Fence Act from 2006 that called for fencing and barriers for up to 700 miles of the 1,954-mile border. In 2015, the Department of Homeland Security reported that 1,300 miles of the 1,954 miles of the border have no coverage. Only 2 percent of the border has the amount of fencing that the Secure Fence Act requires, the Examiner said.
“The executive order calls on the authority in the Secure Fence Act for us to begin immediately,” a senior administration official said, according to the Examiner. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has gotten more than 100 proposals for full-scale prototypes of wall designs, the Examiner report said.
“We are evaluating what started out as a solicitation to industry and request for proposals—18 to 30 feet high, impenetrable, hard-to-scale, the correct aesthetics,” the official told the Examiner. “We’ve tried to capture the intent (of Trump’s order) in the requests for proposals, and those proposals are being evaluated now.”
The 2017 budget resolution provided “in the neighborhood of $900 million” for proposals and prototypes, the official said. He added, however, that the $900 million figure would provide upgrades to current fencing and engineering, design, and real estate work.
What’s more, President Donald Trump said he’s going to ask Congress to write legislation that will bar those coming to America from tapping into taxpayer entitlements for a period of five years. ALL THOSE WHO COME HERE.
All hail the Trumpster.
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