The federal government began work Wednesday to replace a section of border wall in California, the first wall contract awarded in the Trump administration outside of eight prototypes that were built last year in San Diego. Customs and Border Protection is replacing a little more than two miles in downtown Calexico, a sliver of the president's plan for a "big, beautiful wall" with Mexico. A barrier built in the 1990s from recycled metal scraps and landing mat will be torn down for bollard-style posts that are 30 feet high, significantly taller than existing walls. The administration is seeking $18 billion to extend the wall. Efforts to pay for it as part of a broader immigration package that would include granting legal status for people who came to the county as young children failed in the Senate last week. In November, SWF Constructors of Omaha, Neb., won a contract for $18 million to replace the wall in Calexico, about 120 miles east of San Diego. It encompasses an area bisected by the New River, where smugglers are known to guide people through polluted waters. The project, which includes a bridge over the river, is expected to take 300 days. The administration cleared the way for construction in September by waiving dozens of environmental and other reviews in Calexico. A 2005 law exempted it from environmental reviews if the Homeland Security secretary deems a wall to be in national security interests. The Trump administration also has issued waivers to build in San Diego and Santa Teresa, N.M. George W. Bush's administration issued the previous five waivers, allowing the government to quickly extend the wall to nearly one-third of the border without legal challenges that can block construction or cause major delays.
>Calexico Never has there been a more fitting name for a town in that state.
Henry Lewis
Lmao it's not even part of *THE wall*. They're just replacing an existing section.
Matthew Sanchez
So the wall will be having gaps for easy passage, nice.
Brody Martin
The picture you are looking at are prototypes.
Jordan Wood
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Jace Murphy
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Parker Davis
holy fucking shit, $18M for 2 fucking miles? what the fuck
its a wall, not a bridge, not a road, not a parking garage. this cant be right. 1 lane mile of roadway can run about ~1M per mile, for reference.
Juan Hernandez
There are about 600 miles of existing wall faggot. This means those miles will be torn out and replaced. Fuck man what do they teach in schools?
Joseph Allen
Very nice.
Colton Peterson
The tease will be fine.
Ryan Smith
this is fucking sketchy. the awarded company is less than a year old, several states away, and has no website.
and it just got awarded $18M to build two miles of walls.
Julian Phillips
Clearly you know nothing of government contracts. Back room handshakes say a lot more than money.
Sebastian King
See
Evan Hughes
It might be over difficult terrain. Also the wall will have active monitoring systems. So arias where there is a lot of trafficking pressure there will need to be more security. So More expensive per square foot.
Eli Lopez
I was going to say razor wire, but the tease seems more sadistic.
Isaiah Clark
Just a guess. The State of Cal and others have passed laws banning contracts to companies working on the wall. As its muh racist. A new company would protect the old.
Aiden Price
>little more than two miles Well it's a start. I take it this two miles is a really high traffic area for illegals?
Nolan Ward
>founded in 2017 this is just a new company made more or less for this purpose. they will coordinate and hire subcontractors to execute the real work - those subcontractors will have a track record. this is how such things are done. this is basically the Project Manager.
Colton Cox
>lawl fuckin' drumphkins, you can't build a wal-
it must be a living hell for liberals, everyday being proved wrong... over and over and over again until the inevitable suicide
Brandon Young
Very much so.
Xavier Reyes
I didnt think mexicali was a real place wtf
John Miller
Tease.
Justin Bell
>one promise being upheld.
Robert Watson
Border Patrol arrests deported child sex offender in Calexico
This is why Calexico needs the wall first, not to mention the over 18,000 illegals they caught crossing the border in 2017 alone
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Anthony Wright
BUILD THAT """FENCE"""
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!
Jose Cook
The Panama canal is only 15 miles long, would be a better border if we just smeared all the tacos. Manifest destiny.
Jace Bennett
True. Spics love California so much, and there's only 200 miles of border to cover there IIRC. WALL should start there first. Here in Texas, its like 1,500 miles? Nah dude, cover the chokepoints first.
Christian Miller
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Jayden Rivera
lol the beaner guard next to him is thinking "I could kill this puto right now and be the queen of Nogales forever mang"
Lucas Myers
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Carter Lee
>The Panama canal is only 15 miles long You must have went to school only on 'odd' days.
Liam Sullivan
This burger agrees. Claim the lands that our Sup Forumsack forefathers would have wanted us too.
Nolan Wilson
When will he contract out beaner catapult devices to launch them back over the wall to mexico?
Jaxon Williams
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Joshua Wood
Listen up dummy, the only thing Trump can do is replace existing wall. He doesn't have the budget or will to build anything else. He'll replace a few sections and then cry on Twitter that Democrats won't let him do more.
Xavier Mitchell
YASSSSSS!!!!
Go ahead and build 150 miles of it and we'll just walk around it. TRUMP STUMPED.
Michael Hall
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Christian Gray
they either chose the tease or a similar bar design
Ryder Perez
>2 miles
Itsfuckingnothing
Henry Morgan
>replace existing wall
Jacob Ross
hey obamaleaf. did you have a good day today?
Jonathan Bailey
shell company to try and avoid public backlash and boycotts I saw several such companies rise up around 2012 or so when repo work started exploding.
Nicholas Hughes
Yes thank you. How was yours?
Tyler Lopez
they're closing down a smuggling freeway it's 2 miles along the New River. this is what getting something done looks like
John Brown
It's a start at least. This way they can go ahead and build that without some idiot trying to hold the construction back.
Logan Young
>Build wall >Remove second amendment so based
Mason Butler
>mexicali >calexico
burn it all.
Jordan Johnson
Its a start, fucking dogfucker.
Jace Butler
>hire mexicans to keep out other mexicans Pottery
Blake Anderson
Probably a JV under an LLC shield. Nothing new considering the faggot states trying to destroy everyone involved with the wall project.
can't complain. hit the pub with some friends after work.
Hunter Long
This is one of the biggest human trafficking areas in the US. It'
Austin Young
>weeaboo >drumpftard Checks out
Carson Gutierrez
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Jackson Parker
>bollard-style posts
wut? Is this like to mark where the wall is going?
Wyatt Gonzalez
>54 minutes dude...give me time codes
Asher Price
What prototype did they approve? I hope it's the thicc one.
Wyatt Rogers
is there video of the prototype testing?
Jordan Ward
POO
Kayden Bell
White pills for days nigga!
Michael Hernandez
My vote is for the THICC
Owen Watson
see: So that companies aren't penalized by the State of California for working on the wall, they need to hide their identities behind newly created front companies like this one.
Angel Cooper
>construct solar border wall >sell electricity generated by said wall to neighboring Mexican towns >Mexican towns now protect border wall from would-be crossers
John Gomez
You can't beat one chicano tacoman with your fatass body and tiny hands in your smelly town and now you're dreaming to push down us? Hahaha! Sometimes virgin pol burgers are funny because of their autistic sexless illness.
James Jones
You forgot >Use funds to cover said border wall/solar panels >Mexico pays for wall like God Emperor said. 200D underwater hungry hungry hippos.
