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The first prototypes for Trump's Mexican wall have been unveiled - and here are the pics

According to some estimates the wall could cost as much as $20 billion.

EIGHT PROTOTYPES OF US President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall were unveiled on Thursday at the Mexican border.

The concrete and steel structures, erected in a remote area in San Diego, will be tested for 30 to 60 days to determine which design meets the needs to secure the border, US Customs and Border Patrol Protection said in a statement.

“Border security contributes to our overall national security and relies on a combination of border infrastructure, technology, personnel, and partnerships,” the agency’s acting deputy commissioner Ron Vitiello said.

“Border walls have proven to be an extremely effective part of our multi-pronged security strategy to prevent the illegal migration of people and drugs over the years.”

Here are the eight ‘samples’.

Wall One: 

US Mexico Border Wall Prototypes Displayed John Gibbins / PA Images John Gibbins / PA Images / PA Images

Wall Two:

US Mexico Border Wall Prototypes Displayed John Gibbins / PA Images John Gibbins / PA Images / PA Images

Wall Three:

US Mexico Border Wall Prototypes Displayed John Gibbins / PA Images John Gibbins / PA Images / PA Images

Wall Four:

US Mexico Border Wall Prototypes Displayed John Gibbins / PA Images John Gibbins / PA Images / PA Images

Wall Five:

US Mexico Border Wall Prototypes Displayed John Gibbins / PA Images John Gibbins / PA Images / PA Images

Wall Six:

US Mexico Border Wall Prototypes Displayed John Gibbins / PA Images John Gibbins / PA Images / PA Images

Wall Seven:

Border Wall Gregory Bull / PA Images Gregory Bull / PA Images / PA Images

Wall Eight:

Border Wall Gregory Bull / PA Images Gregory Bull / PA Images / PA Images

Authorities said that in considering the mockups – built by six companies from across the United States – they will evaluate a number of characteristics including anti-breaching, anti-climbing and anti-digging capabilities.

The models were erected after Trump’s 25 January executive order that instructed the Department of Homeland Security to build a wall along the nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico.

Trump, who argues that the wall will help stop illegal immigration, criminal gangs and drug trafficking, repeated the latter assertion in a speech on Thursday in which he declared the opioid crisis a “public health emergency”.

US Mexico Border Wall Prototypes Displayed John Gibbins / PA Images John Gibbins / PA Images / PA Images

“An astonishing 90% of the heroin in America comes from south of the border where we will be building a wall which will greatly help in this problem,” said Trump, who has yet to secure funding for his project.

According to some estimates, the wall could cost as much as $20 billion and Congress has so far been reluctant to dedicate funding for the barrier.

Mexico has also balked at Trump’s demands that it pay for the wall.

© AFP 2017

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    Mute Bob McTanned
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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:03 AM

    Hmmm, wall seven is nice

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:05 AM

    @Bob McTanned: would be handier to climb over tho

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:25 AM

    Surely that’s the back of it. The sheer side is facing south. But Cemex would love if they chose that option, the amount of concrete would be astronomical

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:58 AM

    @Osine: I don’t know Rogelio Zambrano the president of Cemex said he will not be bidding.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:59 AM

    @Bob McTanned:

    I can pish higher than any of walls!

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:01 AM

    @Kieran Stafford: true, more ornamental than anything

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:13 AM

    @Bob McTanned: architectural masterpieces in their own right. I can see that some eminent architect has spent a lot of time working on them. I suppose the minefields and machine gun towers are a separate contract

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:35 AM

    @Kieran Stafford: also hard to breakthrough with the extra thickness at the bottom..

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    Oct 29th 2017, 7:48 PM

    @Bob McTanned: Could they not make one from Re-cycled plastic? How deep will it go?

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    Oct 29th 2017, 8:32 PM

    @Bob McTanned: can’t bate a daycent wall

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:09 AM

    Should have popular poll….Americans vote for favourite wall on their cell phones……With premium rates would pay for a few miles…..

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:27 AM

    @John003: could call it “America’s Got Wall” or. “Wall Idol”

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:33 AM

    @White Rabbit: Or “Wall Factor”

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:10 AM

    @Sinead Hanley: I’m a Mexican get me out of here!

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    Oct 29th 2017, 3:53 PM

    @White Rabbit: or Wall Street

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    Oct 29th 2017, 6:50 PM

    @John003: the Mexicans can produce Pimp My Wall

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:10 AM

    I like the way three and five have a modern design, while wall eight has an old school nod to the berlin wall.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 1:19 PM

    @Paddy Norton: When are they posting the “New Mexican Ladder” designs?

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:07 AM

    I think it’s am excellent idea…

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:10 AM

    @Taylor Birkenhead: Yeah walls always solve problems. Look at the great Wall of China that looks good, all of these walls look crappy and where is the solar panels parts of the them. Has the war on drugs ever worked? Oh and where is the immigrants crisis now? Oh they rake it up every time there is an election. Dere tok r jabs!!!!

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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:16 PM

    @Taylor Birkenhead: people in glasshouses shouldn’t throw stones, just saying…..

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    Oct 29th 2017, 1:40 PM

    @Taylor Birkenhead: I hope you never have a bad bit of luck, for that remark and buy a mirror sometime.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 1:48 PM

    @Taylor Birkenhead: Personal insults that’s nice, can’t have a reasonable debate, yes the great Wall of China maintains it’s name because of the architecture that went into it. The US wall attempts just looks blasé. So how is the immigrant crisis going in the US? Ever think of moving there or do you want to get a green card first?

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    Oct 29th 2017, 2:34 PM

    @Simon O Flaherty: don’t mind taylor, he/she has a profile pic of a character from the film American history X. the character is a nutcase neo nazi. sort of explains a lot

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    Oct 29th 2017, 3:13 PM

    @Taylor Birkenhead: wow you’ve a lot of hate and pain inside. Probably why you’re so gleeful about hurting people. Get out from behind your keyboard and get an actual life. I feel sorry for you.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:16 AM

    Tis a fine wall, but sure tis no pool English

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:20 AM

    @The Descolada: D’oh-eth!

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    Oct 29th 2017, 8:42 PM

    @The Descolada: Is it a pool yet Lisa?

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:10 AM

    Bit of a waste of money considering most illegal Mexicans just fly into the country and stay after their visa expires.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:27 AM

    @fiachra29: Shush would ya… that’s a secret…

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:42 AM

    @Ryan: Ah all jokes aside, the big secret is which buddy of Don’s going to get the contract to build it.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:01 AM

    @fiachra29:
    I heard Twas Healy rea to build it.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:19 AM

    @fiachra29: that’s only rich Mexicans. Trump only wants to keep out the poor ones

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    Oct 29th 2017, 1:43 PM

    @fiachra29: Kushner Construction.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 1:53 PM

    @fiachra29: no, that’s just the Irish

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:31 AM

    Why doesn’t Trump just say that he has built the most fantastic fabulous wall between Mexico and The US and it’s made of glass and it is beautiful and the Mexicans were delighted to pay for it. His supporters & the republicans will believe him and that all that matters. Why go through this charade.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:07 AM

    @Osine: Are you suggesting Trump supporters are gullible ?.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:28 AM

    @Osine: The other approach of reducing the Social Welfare magnet hurts the genuine in-between job people.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:50 AM

    S: not gullible… that suggest some naivety on their part…stupid is more accurate.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:51 AM

    Tom: I have absolutely no idea of what your talking about.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:57 AM

    You’re… (ironically my pet hate)

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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:32 PM

    @Osine: US has already had to reduce welfare rates to stop half of South and Central America heading North. Europe is only now discussing this approach as a means to contain mass migration

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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:39 PM

    @Osine: Unfortunately Americans supporters of trump are gullible

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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:58 PM

    Got you now, my preposterous (faintly amusing) suggestion that Trump lies and tell his people he has already got the Mexicans to pay for a glass wall is met with a comment about the reduction of US social welfare…. you got me there bud, you win, no arguing against such entrenched trumpism. Logic, truth, humour, is like chaff in the wind.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 1:44 PM

    @S.: No, just stupid.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:10 AM

    WALL-E

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:17 AM

    In Israel that’s called a fence!

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:33 AM

    @Tom Phelan: That’s because over 90% of is fencing.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:34 AM

    @Honeybadger197: and to be fair, the Mexicans haven’t sent any suicide bombers in yet.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:05 AM

    Prototype walls… someones taking the pi55 here, surely.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:10 AM

    @Eyepopper:

    These walls will include complex IoT sensors and integration with centralised control systems. Sounds like something you’d want to test before building.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:28 AM

    @Thought for Food: Oooh and lasers ? Gotta have lasers…

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:57 AM

    @Ryan: And sharks, you definitely need sharks with those lasers

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:13 AM

    @Thought for Food: yes but the physical structure of the wall hardly needs prototypes, i mean don’t we already know how to build a concrete wall? These prototypes aren’t drastically different from one another, they are all concrete walls ffs. Grandstanding is all this is, it’s as obvious as the rectangular mustasche under Trump’s nose. The only difference will be the cool add-ons like the laser beams, sharks, flamethrower turrets, drawbridges, snake pits, pike pits, bear traps, land mines, boiling oil cauldrons…. The cool stuff is what we be needing the prototypes of .

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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:17 PM

    @Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: Sharks wearing lasers… cause ‘merica… Fu#k yeah…

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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:19 PM

    @Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: and don’t feed the sharks too much, make them more aggressive! Bigly.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:39 AM

    Fiona deFreyne seems to have an a opinion on everything.Not complaining. Just an observation.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:44 AM

    @Liam Dempsey: wall five for me. I think they will become a mini Mount Everest . Everyone will want a go.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:09 AM

    The Ancient Romans had an engineering solution to get over any wall or fortification, no matter how high. It will be easy to implement and effective. It would require a team of 25 to 30 persons and rather basic materials. The only countermeasure would be to post up enough wall guards to shoot into the Mexican side of the wall and kill any Mexicans attempting this basic engineering solution.

    Walls are rather primitive technology from a 21st century security perspective.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:14 AM

    @Fiona deFreyne:

    Except these walls will have sensors on the approach to and over the wall. Any attempt to breech with ladders would be detected before it happened.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:21 AM

    @Thought for Food: not ladders and no need to pivot or lean against the walls.

    There is no such thing as an insurmountable wall unless you dedicate an army of snipers ready to kill anyone who tries to surmount the wall. That would require vast man power and ongoing expense. It would be so expensive as to be economically ruinous.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:32 AM

    @Fiona deFreyne: expert in climbing walls now? Haha

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:33 AM

    @Fiona deFreyne: that reminds me of World War Z

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:36 AM

    @John Tierney: I am not going to post a link. It can be located in any Roman military history book.

    I hope that the wall is built. It will be a monument to Trump’s hubris.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:55 AM

    @Fiona deFreyne: imagine the opportunities for graffiti. On both sides too. Now that would be an attraction worth visiting.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 2:18 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: if you are referring to Masada then all you need to do is protect the builders – so snipers are not even enough – they made a movie of that with Peter O’Toole

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    Nov 2nd 2017, 9:25 AM

    @Fiona deFreyne: Donald Trump is a rather primitive human by 21st century standards….

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:20 AM

    Has he asked the Chinese lads? They built a lovely wall to keep out the drugs or was it dragons

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:55 AM

    @Lobert Rester: Not sure, I heard something about chasing dragons alright!

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:30 AM

    Wall 5 would allow you to just pass drugs through, or am I missing something?

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:48 AM

    @Martin Flood: and you could throw drugs over the others walls. It’s more the people he wants to keep out. The “bad hombres”.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:24 AM

    @Martin Flood: or maybe a troupe of Mexican limbo dancers might succeed!!!!!!

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:04 AM

    It will prove very expensive for the mexicans…. oh, wait….

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:11 AM

    Not exactly prototypes of the great wall of China, are they?

    Another vainglorious attempt by Trump.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:19 AM

    @Fiona deFreyne: I Don’t think Trump is personally designing the wall to be fair.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:23 AM

    @Dave Murray: I thought that Trump had commissioned the designs.

    Are these just private operations trying to display their best prototype designs.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:21 AM

    I like wall 7

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:10 AM

    Trump is a Wallie

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:18 AM

    Does it come in summer meadow?

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:08 AM

    7

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:47 AM

    Trump should invoke mandatory military draft for the unemployed in the US to join the Wall-building Division.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:33 PM

    @alphanautica: They should build the wall out of the bodies of the corpses of the unemployed as well as building houses in Dublin from the corpses of the unemployed “make them earn it”.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:19 AM

    I Hope El’Chapo keeps his word an blows it up.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:33 AM

    Walls are not an obvious or sensible solution to a 3,201 km length of land border.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:38 AM

    @Fiona deFreyne: great wall of china

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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:23 PM

    @Christy Pop: The Great Wall of China failed to do it’s job. The most advanced civilisation in the world at the time was invaded and conquered by a nomadic tribe on horseback with bows and arrows….

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:47 AM

    Machine Gun turrets, it needs machine gun turrets.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:59 AM

    @Diogenes: seems like a few of us a thinking along the lines of Metal Gear Solid! :)

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    Oct 29th 2017, 1:22 PM

    @Luke Victory: I still mean to play that.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 8:47 PM

    @Luke Victory: i think thats Trumps next play. A Metal Gear patroling the border.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:31 AM

    There are far superior and more effective technological solutions but less symbolic in nature. These solutions are already partly in operation.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:12 AM

    Trump’s stumps.

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:15 AM

    What a despicable human being Trump is

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:57 AM

    @Mel Fitzpatrick: just as despicable as terrorist obambush and all the other murderers before him

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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:27 AM

    Can we get number 5 for Donegal? Tyrone will pay!

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    Mute Naoimh Ó Murchadha
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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:14 PM

    Walls 4 and 6 area my faves. The Mexicans can see in and see what the’re missing.☺️

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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:04 PM

    @Naoimh Ó Murchadha: of course, what a funny thing to say. I suppose that’s what went through the minds of the thousands of people that arrived in the US escaping the famine, then not allowed to get in, and see what they were missing through the gates at the ports of arrival

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    Mute Patabake Kennedy
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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:35 AM

    I think walls three and five are fences with walls on top. Wall two seems to have a container on top. number eight is being held up with telegraph poles What ever happened to good old blocks and mortar.

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    Mute Keith Doyle
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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:54 AM

    $20 billion to build. How much to maintain when the Mexican’s try blow parts of it up? Will it be bomb proof? All well and good having sensors, sensors can be disabled by snipers shooting them out. How much will they be to replace? Cameras are the same. Couple of snipers lined along the wall, shoot out all the cameras and sensors, patrols need to be placed along these parts costing more money. Keep moving along the wall until all of them are taken out. Drug cartels have stock piles of money. If the piles deplete because of the wall, it will be worth their while investing a pallet of American Dollars to take it out

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    Mute Johnny Maloney
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    Oct 29th 2017, 1:41 PM

    @Keith Doyle: sounds like you’ve taken some of that Mexican product yourself

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    Mute Chris Turner
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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:42 AM

    Surely the Mexicans should decide as they are paying for it :€)

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    Mute Ed Lowry
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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:31 PM

    The price of these eight contenders below.
    They should have solar panels on them to make back some of the cost.

    Solid concrete: Fisher Sand & Gravel Co., based in Arizona, delivered a 30ft tall solid concrete structure for examination. Cost: $365,000

    Part -see through: KWR Construction, also based in Arizona, submitted a design made from unidentified material, featuring a see-through lower two-thirds and a thicker top third. Cost: $486,411

    Steel mesh and spikes: The Texas Sterling Construction Co. lined the top of its grey concrete project with steel mesh and spikes. Cost: $470,000

    Concrete and see-through: The Caddell Construction Co., based in Alabama, submitted a concrete prototype – nicknamed ‘the comb’ – with a solid top half and see-through bottom half. Cost: $458,103

    Thick concrete base: A second construction by the Caddell Co. features a concrete wall with a thicker bottom half. Cost: $344,000

    Steel ‘radiator style’: ELTA North America Inc. submitted a steel wall with a rounded top – resembling a radiator, according to some. Cost: $406,319

    Metal: W.G. Yates & Sons, of Philadelphia, submitted both a concrete and non-concrete prototype. This metal version cost $458,103

    Concrete: W.G. Yates & Sons, of Philadelphia, submitted both a concrete and non-concrete prototype. This concrete version cost $453,548

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    Mute Diarmuid Moore
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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:03 AM

    At the Turkey Syria boarder they have automatically activated machine gun turrets that warn you to go back and then shoot if you keep approaching. These combined with a deep trench would be a lot cheaper and would appeal to the gun nuts

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    Mute John Judd
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    Oct 29th 2017, 2:47 PM

    There is already a border between the US & Mexico he’s simply securing it I don’t know what all the fuss is .

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    Mute Ciarán
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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:58 AM

    Wall 8 is a little high, Maybe 30 Mexicans high!

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    Mute Emer Caffrey
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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:48 PM

    Ireland’s fittest family would be over that in jig time

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    Mute WilhelminaMCallaghan
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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:35 AM

    Dear Donald , I need walls real real bad I can’t afford them Donald can you please pretty please send me a wee wall 2m do me but I wouldn’t say no to three I just want privacy . Ta ta

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    Mute Gary
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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:34 AM

    You’d have to have a cylindrical device that can rotate at the top of the wall. A grappling hook could be used on most of these.

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    Mute Sean O'Reilly
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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:44 PM

    Where is the design showing a wall made of interlocking solar panels, free energy to electrocute any wannabe climbers

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    Mute Stephen Maher
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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:59 AM

    Hmmm surely you could go under it, or where it meets the Sea, sail round it?

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    Mute Gus Sheridan
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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:14 PM

    These walls reflect Trump’s mentality.

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    Mute Christopher Fagan
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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:44 AM

    Mexicans will just dig tunnels.

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    Mute Eugene Conroy
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    Oct 29th 2017, 1:49 PM

    I’m thinking of opening a shop that exclusively sells Mexican border walls.
    Goin to call it wallmart.
    Should make a fortune

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    Mute David Mitchell
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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:08 AM

    Wall 3 and 7 are a bit like bullseye, ‘this is what you coulda won’

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    Mute Mark O Flaherty
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    Oct 29th 2017, 1:21 PM

    Some fine hurling walls there

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    Mute gerry fallon
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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:42 AM

    We can name it “WALL ST”

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    Mute Pat Price
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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:09 PM

    Arlene will be interested, they all look crocodile proof,

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    Mute arnaas
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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:51 AM

    If the Mexicans are paying for it, its only fair that they pick it.

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    Mute Jimmy Cullen
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    Oct 29th 2017, 4:48 PM

    We should build a wall around cork and get the Langers to pay for it.

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    Mute gerry fallon
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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:42 AM

    Hmmm!!! Ok,we’ll take wall 8 please.
    Eh,does that come with a 10 year guarantee?

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    Mute Garrett Merrick
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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:56 AM

    My Waku ladder could get over all them walls

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    Mute Rusty Nuts
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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:52 AM

    Surely there was performance criteria to be met? Deterrent over top, can’t pass drugs through. One of them looks like it will completely blow the ozone with the volume of concrete.

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    Mute Felim O'Rourke
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    Oct 29th 2017, 3:37 PM

    President Trump will need a lot of Mexicans for this 20 billion project. As McAlpine would have said “keep the mexicans in front of the cement mixer”

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    Mute Damien James Murray
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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:53 PM

    Won’t stop cheep drones flying over it to drop drugs off something the cartels already do. No wall alone will stop drugs.

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    Mute Gerard Heery
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    Oct 29th 2017, 2:03 PM

    Landmines would be alot greener to the planet and wouldn’t be an eyesore, what do you think Éamon Ryan

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    Mute Gavin Minifie
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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:21 PM

    What’s the point ? Fly illegal contraband over with drones and the like ! What idiots and a waste of money ….. never mind the blot on the landscape !

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    Mute Ryan
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    Oct 29th 2017, 12:26 PM

    @Gavin Minifie: Drones!?! Try a catapult… or my personal favourite a homemade pneumatic pumpkin mortar……

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    Mute purple rain
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    Oct 29th 2017, 1:16 PM

    All nice but we’ll keep looking thanks.

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    Mute Paul
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    Oct 29th 2017, 5:42 PM

    Surely a good ladder is available in Mexico

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    Mute Rob Hopkins
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    Oct 29th 2017, 5:38 PM

    I’m not informed enough to have a worthy opinion on this whole thing I guess, but I can’t help but think this is kinda going to be a history situation that our kids and our kids kids will be reading about in a history lesson years to come.

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    Mute Niall Ó Cofaigh
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    Oct 29th 2017, 2:22 PM

    I heard they were going to leave gaps for migrating animals to pass – maybe that is the idea of the “wall over fence” ones?

    One can go on and on about the jokes but remember that a large number of people across the ocean actually support many of that mans ideas – not sure if this scares me most.

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    Mute Luke Victory
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    Oct 29th 2017, 11:55 AM

    Aww what? No motion detector gun turrets?

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    Mute dB O'Neill
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    Oct 29th 2017, 5:29 PM

    Does the wall go down far enough to block the tunnels?

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    Mute Joe Dobias
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    Oct 29th 2017, 5:52 PM

    Wouldn’t a bunch of robot laser guns be better at keeping the border safe

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    Mute Christy Pop
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    Oct 29th 2017, 10:37 AM

    i would just bring a ladder and rope

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    Mute Irish big fellow
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    Oct 29th 2017, 2:41 PM

    All the Mexicans will be taking up Pole vaulting just to get over this obstacle.

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    Mute Brendan Mason
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    Oct 29th 2017, 3:51 PM

    It’s great that Trump will turn the Mexican Border into a ring of steel. That ends the drugs going into the States. The war on drugs has been won.
    Oh!!!! Wait………
    Mexico might have another idea. What is it Chapo?

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    Mute Paul Whitehead
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    Oct 29th 2017, 6:26 PM

    U could easily get some skinny Mexicans through the gaps in 3 and 5.

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    Mute wrinkly
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    Oct 29th 2017, 6:32 PM

    It’s four from me!

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    Mute Grumpy Bollovks
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    Oct 30th 2017, 9:41 AM

    Trumps wet dream – opportunity to pick one of a parading group of walls and then firing the rest to keep out Mexicans

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    Mute Barry morcom
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    Oct 29th 2017, 8:23 PM

    i would have put solar panels on it…
    Would have paid for itself after a few year’s….

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    Mute FlopFlipU
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    Oct 29th 2017, 8:16 PM

    All Trumps ideas would drive you up the wall

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    Mute Michael Edmonds
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    Oct 29th 2017, 2:50 PM

    I said it before this guy is not fit for purpose.

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    Mute Muckser Maher
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    Oct 29th 2017, 3:44 PM

    Just get a pickaxe & shovel $20 & dig under it for access. Easy peasy . Instead of $20 billion to build up. Mathematical genius or what?

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    Mute Ollie Watson
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    Oct 29th 2017, 2:10 PM

    Wall 2 3 5 7 piss easy to climb just build a 4 m tall concrete slab

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    Mute Joe Dobias
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    Oct 29th 2017, 5:51 PM

    Amazing what money can be spent on

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