Has any of the wall been built yet?

[CauseImbetta]

Trump’s been president for over 1.5 years so far and I haven’t heard anything about the wall being built.

Have you heard anything about the start of it yet?

That was a big election item. He better deliver.

 

[Trotsky]

I propose a dome.

Posts like this have me convinced you’re a right wing troll

Well, OBVIOUSLY, I couldn't say it was in our brains, because...well....it's stupid.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Can you imagine how different our view of history would be if the Chancellor of Weimar Germany was as stupid, incompetent, and comedically dishonest as Trump?

Like, with our super serious and (appropriately) grim view of the horror that was WWII, can you imagine how different it would be if such a hilarious and clownish figure were the centerpiece, instead of Hitler and Mous?


@Limbo Pete any historical constructivist insights on this alternate reality?

I think that, at the very least, Holocaust jokes would have become acceptable and not "too soon" about two decades earlier.

Eh, I tend to avoid what-ifs
Woulda definitely been a lot less angsty tho

 

[Trotsky]

Eh, I tend to avoid what-ifs
Woulda definitely been a lot less angsty tho

 

[JonnyRingo84]

Yes but not much. He needs more funding for it


https://www.factcheck.org/2018/04/has-the-border-wall-begun/

On March 23, Trump signed the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill (also known as the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018), though he said there “are a lot of things that I’m unhappy about in this bill.”

Although Trump had asked for $25 billion for wall construction, the bipartisan spending bill provides what Trump called only an “initial down payment” of $1.6 billion in funding. But even that sum comes with significant strings attached.

Here’s what that $1.6 billion is for (see Section 230, starting on page 673):

• $251 million for “secondary fencing” near San Diego.
• $445 million for “primary pedestrian levee fencing” in the Rio Grande Valley.
• $196 million for “primary pedestrian fencing” in the Rio Grande Valley.
• $445 million for replacement of primary pedestrian fencing.
• $38 million for border barrier planning and design.
• $196 million for border security technology.

The bill further states that the money can only be used to build “operationally effective designs deployed as of the date of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, [May 5, 2017] such as currently deployed steel bollard designs, that prioritize agent safety.”

Readers may recall Trump on March 13 toured eight wall prototypes — which you can see here — that he had put out to bid early in his presidency. The language in the omnibus bill precludes funding for any of those designs.

In a March 30 briefing, Customs and Border Protection Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald D. Vitiello said the spending bill will fund about 100 miles of “border wall system,” though he added that “does not fully fund our needs in the most critical locations.”

According to Vitiello, the construction near San Diego will include 14 miles of “new border wall,” replacing “old, dilapidated [Vietnam War-era helicopter] landing mats in favor of a steel bollard wall” and replacing 14 miles of secondary barriers.

In Calexico, California, the federal government will replace two miles of pedestrian barrier with “a new 30-foot border wall,” he said. In Santa Teresa, New Mexico, the government will build 20 miles of border wall, he said. According to the Washington Examiner, the new barriers in Santa Teresa will replace “three-foot-tall posts and a taller mesh fence.”

Vitiello said the government will build four miles of new border wall in El Paso, Texas, and 35 new gates along a 55-mile stretch of existing border wall in the Rio Grande Valley.

Finally, Vitiello said, the Department of Homeland Security will replace 47 miles of “dilapidated border fencing with new border wall system in various locations along the southwest border.” Also in the Rio Grande Valley, he said, it plans to build 25 miles of new levee wall in Hidalgo County, and eight miles of “new border wall system” in Starr County, Texas. All of that is made possible by funding in the 2018 spending bill, he said.

By our count, that comes to less than 40 miles of new barrier where there wasn’t any before.

Although most of the new barrier will replace old or ineffective fencing, Vitiello said, “I would say that it’s all new because there’s a different design going in. It’s replacing stuff that is unsuitable, the dilapidated wall, this old landing mat fence. It doesn’t serve our needs anymore.”

The president would ultimately like to have 1,000 miles of barrier, Vitiello said, and there is currently 654 miles of fencing. So the funding bill leaves the president well short of his goal.

On March 28, Trump tweeted photos from a briefing “on the start of our Southern Border WALL!”



Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

Great briefing this afternoon on the start of our Southern Border WALL!

2:47 PM - Mar 28, 2018

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The pictures show steel bollards, which look like a comb, and provide a barrier that border patrol agents can see through — a feature that Trump has repeatedly said over the last nine months is critical for enforcement purposes.

That raises the question, though: Is the barrier funded through the omnibus a wall or a fence? At one time, that distinction was important to Trump.

Wall or Fence?

mexico will pay for it.

wait

since mexico isnt going to pay for it, how much will i have to pay for it? more than illegal immigrants allegedly cost me? then theyll probably still come in anyway?

 

[7437]

Americans with a brain should call and complain to their representatives that they want money for wall in US next budget thing. No money for wall = you wont vote for them.

You mean the next Mexican budget

 

[dragonsfly]

As European myself I think Mexico are the true winners in this wall deal. Natural catastrophe will happen within the next decade or decade and half in the US and Believe me the Mexicans will not be wanting these baboons entering in numbers who are already heavily armed and sending out the army to cover the outside of the wall will do Mexico great favor.

Mark my words you will be all filling up your cars to flee with your wives and kids in a true ASAP speed trying to enter Mexico so you can continue all the way down to Argentina etc etc trying to enter Europe from there but the journey will end on the Mexican border

 

[surrealworlds]

I support a wall IF Mexico pays for it. Otherwise Trump is a liar. His supporters are idiots and the wall is a waste of money and time.
Live up to your promises Trump! You said the wall will be paid for by Mexico so quit asking the American taxpayers for money!

 

[Juventud]

The only wall is the one around The Presidents playpen.

His staff have resigned to stealing dangerous legislation off his desk so he can't sign it.

He's only let outside for his playtime to go to his rallies & golf.

 

[mb23100]

Unfortunately Mexico's check bounced

 

[Phr3121]

Has any of the wall been built yet? I haven’t heard anything about the wall being built.

Which one?
. U.S. - Mexico
. Israel - West Bank
. North Korea - South Korea
. Berlin (1961)
. Pink Floyd's
. Bloods - Crips in LA
. The one down the street from my house.
. Husband - wife
. New addition to the dining room.
. Not a wall, but a wood fence for my donkeys was built.

 

[Phr3121]

Mexico's tunnel construction is ahead of schedule...

 

[Goonerview]

mexico will pay for it.

wait

since mexico isnt going to pay for it, how much will i have to pay for it? more than illegal immigrants allegedly cost me? then theyll probably still come in anyway?

Which eastern european country are you from?

 

[DeJulez]

He said he would do it through positive trade deals. But i really do wish the US would militarily force mexico to pay for it. Lol you guys could do it if you wanted.

No they couldn't.
I think you are over estimating this military and underestimating the strength of Mexicans.
if that happened every white person in L.A would be dead within hours.

 

[Seaside]

This is the stuff I listened to Alex Jones for a decade+ ago. That and the railroads leading to concentration camps and spying, etc. Now he's just a right-wing shill, which is surprising as he always railed against both parties.

As for the wall, the only thing that's been built are sections approved by the previous administration I believe. Somehow Trumptards have convinced themselves it was Trump's doing.

Also lol@$1.3 Trillion budget that doesn't address our crumbling infrastructure and losing ground on science to communist shitholes like China.

China isnt a shithole. Idk why some americans look down on it so much. I wish my country was like china in many ways.

Invade a sovereign nation because of a wall?

why not.

No they couldn't.
I think you are over estimating this military and underestimating the strength of Mexicans.
if that happened every white person in L.A would be dead within hours.

No they wouldnt. This idea that mexican american citizens would leave comfort of home and nice lives. And dont most white conservatives own all the guns?

Anyway you wont have regular people American citizens dying for some stupid crap lile mexico being invaded by most powerful military on earth.

 

[DeJulez]

No they wouldnt. This idea that mexican american citizens would leave comfort of home and nice lives. And dont most white conservatives own all the guns?

Anyway you wont have regular people American citizens dying for some stupid crap lile mexico being invaded by most powerful military on earth.

No most white conservatives own guns legally and they are not athletic and have never killed a man.

2 Escalades full of Los Zeta members would wipe out any conservative town. And they would do it with gold plated assault rifles.
And these are people that have killed before many times.

Some white guy in Lubbock, Texas shooting bottles in his back yard is a joke compared to these lunatics.

 

[DeJulez]

. And dont most white conservatives own all the guns?

The L.A. Riots is a good example.
Black and Browns beat the shit out of Asians and Whites. The Asians fought back, but had most of their shit destroyed.
They have on video an interview with a couple of black guys during the riots with a car in the background that smashed into a light pole after the driver was shot in the head.
Apparently he was some white guy who went down there with his gun to you know "fight back". He pulled his gun out and a few black guys wasted him instantly.
All that "we got guns" doesn't mean shit if you have never used it, and especially when you try to use it on people that are shooting all the time.

That's what would happen on a larger scale.

 

[spin]

I'm starting to notice there's alot of people in the warroom arguing about American politics,

That are 1000's of miles away.

If it's not a discussion about some human rights crisis why do people feel the need to get involved when they have no skin in the game.

Chemical gas attacks = we all should say that's bad.

Brexit? Not really any of my business

shitposting recognizes no borders.

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

The wall is just to placate the rubes. If rich business owners still wanna employ Mexicans they will find ways to get them through the wall.

 

[ultramanhyata]

Mexico's tunnel construction is ahead of schedule...

Hopefully Trump isn't shown these vids. He may order a carpet bombing with bunker busters all along the Southern border.