This Tuesday, September 26, construction officially began on eight prototypes of the border wall promised by President Donald Trump, with which he intends to end illegal immigration by land to the United States.
The news was announced by the Department of the Interior, with a video published on its Twitter account.
The excavators have begun to remove the earth and the work is being carried out in an uninhabited area, in the vicinity of the Otay Mesa border crossing, east of Tijuana.
Four of the prototypes will be made of cement and the other four will be made of “other materials.” The eight prototypes will be between 5.5 and 9.1 meters high and 9 meters long.
The US president has highlighted that the border police recommend that the wall allow visibility to the other side, something that is essential for surveillance tasks.
The Department of the Interior expects construction of the prototypes to be completed within a month.
The published note states that “they will be designed to stop illegal crossings in the area in which they have been built.”
And he adds that these prototypes will be used as a basis for the “future design standard”, as the needs of the Border Police evolve.
The land chosen for these initial tests is federal land - a desert area on the US side - and therefore does not pose problems with permits and expropriations.
However, beyond the eight prototypes that four different companies will carry out (in order to obtain the juicy contract), the truth is that at the moment the political, financial and international and internal consequences that the construction of the wall entails.
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