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The eight wall prototypes are standing outside San Diego near Tijuana. Daniel Acker

Donald Trump will today visit the eight towering prototypes for his 'big beautiful border wall'

Several protests are being planned.

PROTESTERS ARE HOLDING marches and rallies ahead of President Donald Trump’s first official visit to California.

Trump will visit eight towering prototypes of his planned wall today before addressing Marines in San Diego and attending a fund-raiser in Los Angeles.

Nearly 200 people marched in downtown San Diego, which is on the border with Mexico, to denounce Trump and in particular his crackdown on immigration both legal and illegal.

California is the country’s most populous state and a Democratic stronghold.

Trump will arrive in San Diego at 11:30 am (1930 Irish time) and then go to nearby Otay Mesa to view eight prototypes for the wall he wants to build on the border with Mexico.

Ariel Norcross, demonstrating Monday outside the Federal Building, carried a placard that read “No hate in the Golden State.”

“I don’t want him, his hateful rhetoric, his hateful administration, any of his policies in my state, in my country,” said Norcross.

“It’s already been a waste of money to build eight prototypes that are not doing anything,” he added.

“People will find their way here,” he said as he walked in a procession featuring placards denouncing the wall plan and children in Mexican ponchos riding on their parents’ shoulders.

“I don’t know why he took so long to get here but I think he is realizing that this is the strongest point of resistance, here at the border and in the state of California,” protester Ali Torabei said.

After viewing the wall prototypes, Trump is scheduled to give a speech at a military base in Miramar and then head to Los Angeles for a Republican fund-raising dinner.

Activists Demonstrate Against Financial Companies Poised To Profit From Trump's Border Wall Protests have already begun in California. Spencer Platt / Getty Images Spencer Platt / Getty Images / Getty Images

The largest protest rally will be at a church in San Ysidro, from which you can see the border. Hundreds of people are expected to take part.

Demonstrators plan to erect a large sign calling on Trump to “build bridges, not walls.”

But a pro-Trump rally in favor of the wall project is also scheduled.

Organisers on both sides were urging people to remain peaceful after recent scuffles at rallies in Southern California, including brawls at a Dec. 9 rally near where the prototypes stand.

The Wall

The prototypes Trump is visiting tower over the existing graffiti-covered border fence near hills on the edge of San Diego, at the border with Tijuana, Mexico.

The eight full-scale models stand side-by-side up to a height of about nine meters.

They are colored beige, brown and gray and some have rounded tops, in varying thicknesses to prevent climbing. One panel has a slanted anti-climbing barrier.

MEXICO-US-BORDER-WALL The eight prototypes that are being considered. AFP / Getty Images AFP / Getty Images / Getty Images

Six US companies built the prototypes, most from reinforced concrete and the remainder from other material. Each prototype section cost more than $300,000 and, according to some estimates, the complete wall could require an expenditure of up to $20 billion.

The US border with Mexico stretches nearly 3,200 km, about a third of which already has some type of barrier or wall.

© – AFP 2018 with reporting by Associated Press

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 8:40 AM

    Salmonella would certainly be an unwanted surprise from a kinder egg

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 8:57 AM

    @Diarmuid Dorney: Thankfully our American friends won’t suffer salmonella from a Kinde Egg cause they aren’t allowed for sale due to the toy being a choking hazard. American kids must unhinged their jaws and try to eat them whole or something.

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 9:01 AM

    @Diarmuid Dorney: I wonder does the salmonella come fully assembled or is there a 5 step instruction leaflet along with some small stickers…

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 11:23 AM

    @Jason Walsh: You think it’s the egg that’s the chocking hazard?? It’s the toy. Silly law in a country where children can legally own guns.

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 11:39 AM

    @Jason Walsh: Can’t buy a Kinder Egg in Walmart because they are dangerous. You can buy a gun though. Makes perfect sense.

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 11:09 AM

    Surprise

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 5:56 PM

    Whats german for unwanted pregnancy? Kinder surprise. Lol…

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 12:26 PM

    Did you ever notice that most Salmonella, Listeria and Campylobacter causing Food Poisoning comes from Animal Products ?
    Do you think they are trying to tell us something ?
    Isn’t it about time we gave up on cruelty to animals – forcing them to be pregnant so as we can take their milk to make ‘chocolate eggs’ ?

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 1:07 PM

    @The world outside the M50: have you noticed how Salmonella can also occur with vegetables and leafy greens, rice, fruit or sprouts?
    https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods-that-cause-food-poisoning#TOC_TITLE_HDR_9
    Maybe we should just stop eating full stop?
    Maybe you should adopt your own handle and look at the world outside the M50?

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 1:29 PM

    @D. Memery: Maybe you missed the word ‘MOST’ so I repeat it in capitals for you.
    The main reason for the rare Salmonella on Vegetables is the use of improperly treated ANIMAL MANURE and irrigating with contaminated water – SO nothing to do with the vegetables in an of themselves but outside factors.
    No – we obviously should not stop eating – but we need to remember where Swine Flu, Avian Flu, SARS, COVID and other Zoonotic diseases come from – our interaction with animals.
    Factory Farming is the culprit here not eating.
    As for looking at the world outside the M50 – I’m glad that I don’t live inside it.

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 2:44 PM

    @The world outside the M50: You do realise a kinder egg is not an animal product. It’s actually a chocolate egg!

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 2:49 PM

    @lelookcoco: where do you get your milk? Coconuts?

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 9:49 PM

    @lelookcoco: You do realise a kinder egg uses Milk from an animal ???
    You do realise that what they call ‘Milk’ Chocolate is because they get Mammary Juice from the Cow ?
    Wake up to what you and your children are eating – there is even a ‘pus’ count now for milk

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    Apr 4th 2022, 10:58 PM
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    Apr 8th 2022, 10:00 PM

    @Elaine Phelan: The main reason for the rare Salmonella on Vegetables is the use of improperly treated ANIMAL MANURE and irrigating with contaminated water – SO nothing to do with the vegetables in an of themselves but outside factors.

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    Apr 3rd 2022, 11:49 AM

    Our small fella’s favourite treat :-(

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