Rafael Carranza Arizona Republic Published 1:56 p.m. UTC Aug 22, 2018 A congressional watchdog group revealed new details about the testing and the costs associated with building prototypes of President Donald Trump's wall and the challenges with erecting them along the border with Mexico. The eight prototypes remain standing on the slopes of a hilly area on the outskirts of San Diego, nearly seven months after U.S. Customs and Border Protection finished a series of military-grade field tests on the 30-foot-tall structures. Although CBP has no plans to tear them down soon, don't expect those designs to be replicated and built on a larger scale along the border, based on construction and design deficiencies identified in the agency’s own tests and evaluations. Until now, the federal agency in charge of border security has kept details about the results under wraps, deemed as law-enforcement sensitive. But earlier this month, the U.S. … [Read more...] about Trump’s border wall prototypes fail design requirements and are riddled with deficiencies
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Trump’s border wall prototypes fail design requirements and riddled with deficiencies
Rafael Carranza Arizona Republic Published 4:56 p.m. UTC Aug 21, 2018 A congressional watchdog group revealed new details about the testing and the costs associated with building prototypes of President Donald Trump's wall and the challenges with erecting them along the border with Mexico. The eight prototypes remain standing on the slopes of a hilly area on the outskirts of San Diego, nearly seven months after U.S. Customs and Border Protection finished a series of military-grade field tests on the 30-foot-tall structures. Although CBP has no plans to tear them down soon, don't expect those designs to be replicated and built on a larger scale along the border, based on construction and design deficiencies identified in the agency’s own tests and evaluations. Until now, the federal agency in charge of border security has kept details about the results under wraps, deemed as law-enforcement sensitive. But earlier this month, the U.S. … [Read more...] about Trump’s border wall prototypes fail design requirements and riddled with deficiencies
VMAs 2018: Logic Reunites Immigrant Children With Parents in Border Wall Protest Performance (Video)
Performance echoes themes from music video released last week Reid Nakamura, provided by Published 7:09 pm PDT, Monday, August 20, 2018 Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 VMAs 2018: Logic Reunites Immigrant Children With Parents in Border Wall Protest Performance (Video) 1 / 1 Back to Gallery Logic and Ryan Tedder brought out hundreds of immigrant children and reunited them with their families during their MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) performance on Monday to protest the Trump administration’s border policies. Joined on stage by participants from the activist groups National Domestic Workers Alliance, United We Dream and Make the Road New York, the rapper wore a shirt emblazoned with the phrase “f– the wall” for the politically-charged performance of his latest single “One Day.” Read the full article on The Wrap … [Read more...] about VMAs 2018: Logic Reunites Immigrant Children With Parents in Border Wall Protest Performance (Video)
Trump Wants $5 Billion for Border Wall Amid Shutdown Threat
President Donald Trump laid down a key marker for the autumn federal funding debate, saying Monday he wants around $5 billion this year for his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall. The demand could increase the odds of a government shutdown. The amount he endorsed during a White House immigration event, which he also touted last week at a fundraiser in Utica, N.Y., is the same as that proposed in a House Homeland Security funding measure for next fiscal year. But there’s a catch: the Senate’s version of that funding measure proposes only $1.6 billion for the project. Just how much border barrier funding Trump and his team — along with House and Senate conservatives — can squeeze out of Senate Democrats is likely to be one of the top issues lawmakers and the administration must work through as part of work on fiscal 2019 spending measures. Unless they decide to punt Department of Homeland Security funding until after November’s midterm elections, the White … [Read more...] about Trump Wants $5 Billion for Border Wall Amid Shutdown Threat
Trump on border wall: Democrats ‘don’t mind crime’
President Donald Trump on Monday criticized Democratic lawmakers who are against his proposed border wall, saying they are “people that don’t mind crime.” The president delivered his criticism during an event at the White House saluting members of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection. Several Republican officials attended, including Sen. David Perdue of Georgia and Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona.Story Continued Below “Sadly, in recent months — incredibly, I have to say, incredibly,” Trump said, “a coalition of open-borders extremists — and to me that means crime, people that don’t mind crime — they’ve waged an unprecedented assault on American law enforcement, our greatest people, threatening ICE and Border Patrol for performing their duties admirably and for defending our country from horrible people and horrible, horrible events and crimes.” He added: “Leading members of the … [Read more...] about Trump on border wall: Democrats ‘don’t mind crime’