Testing Work on Border Wall Prototypes Begins Soon Huang Heng - New China
go to original October 28, 2017

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced this week that eight different prototypes of border wall proposed by President Donald Trump had been constructed and the testing work would begin very soon.

For the first time, U.S. CBP Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello went on a tour of the walls, each of which is approximately 30 feet (9.1 meters) high and 25 feet (7.6 meters) wide.

Half of the eight prototypes are made entirely of concrete and others are made of non-concrete materials at the site, east of the Otay Mesa border crossing, 220 km south of Los Angeles.

"The thing I'm most impressed with is the scale," Vitiello said in a one-hour video clip posted by FOX 5 news channel. The prototypes are much higher than the wall which has been installed along the border for years, which is about 3 meters high.

"We are committed to securing our border and that includes constructing border walls. Our multi-pronged strategy to ensure the safety and security of the American people includes barriers, infrastructure, technology and people," said Vitiello.

"Moving forward with the prototypes enables us to continue to incorporate all the tools necessary to secure our border," he added.

Four construction companies from the states of Alabama, Arizona, Texas and Mississippi were selected to build the prototypes last month, and each of them was awarded roughly 400,000 to 500,000 U.S. dollars.

Officials will wait 30 days for the concrete to settle and then spend 30 to 60 days evaluating each prototype. They will wield sledgehammers, torches, pickaxes and battery-operated tools to test the strength of each wall and check how well the walls can prevent digging, climbing and any other strategies to break through.

During the testing period, Vitiello said, workers would try to answer basic questions about the possibilities of climbing or digging through the walls.

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