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by Causes | 6.29.17

Workers are getting started on President Trump’s border wall -- or really, as many as eight of them.

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The concrete walls are experimental prototypes of the much larger one the Trump administration plans to build on the US-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security took private building proposals for the project, requiring that plans include 30-foot-high concrete walls with features that discourage climbing, tunneling, tampering and damage.

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Customs and Border Protection is currently evaluating proposals, and plans to start building the prototypes San Diego as soon as the end of summer, the LA Times reported.

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At the pace of construction planned for next year, it would take more than 15 years to build a wall along more than 1,300 miles of border, much of it rugged and remote, that don’t have physical barriers now.
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President Trump’s budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2018 includes $2.6 billion for border security. The total cost of the border wall, according to the Department of Homeland Security, would be some $21.6 billion.

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Do you support building a border wall? Use the Take Action button to tell your reps what you think!

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— Asha Sanaker

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(Photo Credit: *US Air National Guard)*

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