US authorities have announced a competition of projects wall on the border with Mexico
WASHINGTON, 18 Mar — news, Alexey Bogdanovsky. Border-U.S. customs (CBP) posted on its website the tender documents for private contractors who want to participate in the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico.
“Projects with a height of less than 18 feet (5.5 meters — ed.) is inadmissible”, — stated in the documentation. Ideally, the wall should have a height of 30 feet (about 9 meters), the document says.
In addition, the wall has to “look impressive”, the US should be painted in a “nice color”
The strength parameters of the wall must be such as to make her hole wider than 12 inches (30.5 cm) was not less than an hour. Clarifies that a wall must withstand for one hour the impact of tools such as sledgehammer, pickaxe, chisel, car Jack and manual blowtorch.
Wall parameters should not be allowed to climb over it or make a tunnel, according to the documents.
The President of the United States Donald trump promised to build a wall on the border with Mexico to prevent illegal migration. Trump thinks that the wall needs to pay Mexico, but the Mexican government declares that it does not intend to do that.
Is that a wall will pay American taxpayers: in the current financial year 2017 for these purposes is planned to allocate up to $ 1.5 billion.