US STARTS WORK ON MEXICO BORDER WALL

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The US Customs and Border Protection agency has started to build eight sections of prototype fencing for Donald Trump’s proposed wall on the Mexican border.
US STARTS WORK ON MEXICO BORDER WALL

“With a heavy federal and local law enforcement presence, workers have broken ground in an area surrounded by chain link fencing at Otay Mesa, one of three ports of entry in the San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan region.

The eight prototype designs “will be between 18-30 feet high”, says CBS News, “and will inform future design standards which will likely continue to evolve to meet the US Border Patrol’s requirements”.

Local activists have dismissed the construction of the prototypes as “political theatre for a wall that has no funding, and has really no way to exist”, NBC San Diego reports.

Each section is expected to cost up to £334,000, paid for out of federal funds that have already been allocated. However, Congress is yet to approve the first £1.11bn portion of funding requested by Trump to begin construction of the full-length wall.
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