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AP Exclusive: Border wall contractors brace for hostile site
Source: Associated Press
AP Exclusive: Border wall contractors brace for hostile site
By ELLIOT SPAGAT
Apr. 4, 2017 6:29 AM EDT
SAN DIEGO (AP) One potential bidder on President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under "hostile attack." Another asked if employees can carry firearms in states with strict gun control laws and if the government would indemnify them for using deadly force.
With bids due Tuesday on the first design contracts, interested companies are preparing for the worst if they get the potentially lucrative job.
A U.S. official with knowledge of the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because the details haven't been made public said four to 10 bidders are expected to be chosen to build prototypes.
They will be constructed on a roughly quarter-mile (400-meter) strip of federally owned land in San Diego within 120 feet (37 meters) of the border, though a final decision has not been made on the precise spot, the official said. The government anticipates spending $200,000 to $500,000 on each prototype.
The Border Patrol and local police would establish a buffer zone around the construction site if necessary, the U.S. official said. The San Diego police and sheriff's departments said Monday they will respect constitutional rights to free speech and assembly for any peaceful, law-abiding protesters.
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT
Apr. 4, 2017 6:29 AM EDT
SAN DIEGO (AP) One potential bidder on President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under "hostile attack." Another asked if employees can carry firearms in states with strict gun control laws and if the government would indemnify them for using deadly force.
With bids due Tuesday on the first design contracts, interested companies are preparing for the worst if they get the potentially lucrative job.
A U.S. official with knowledge of the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because the details haven't been made public said four to 10 bidders are expected to be chosen to build prototypes.
They will be constructed on a roughly quarter-mile (400-meter) strip of federally owned land in San Diego within 120 feet (37 meters) of the border, though a final decision has not been made on the precise spot, the official said. The government anticipates spending $200,000 to $500,000 on each prototype.
The Border Patrol and local police would establish a buffer zone around the construction site if necessary, the U.S. official said. The San Diego police and sheriff's departments said Monday they will respect constitutional rights to free speech and assembly for any peaceful, law-abiding protesters.
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AP Exclusive: Border wall contractors brace for hostile site (Original Post)
Eugene
Apr 2017
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lapfog_1
(29,204 posts)1. And to some (maybe a majority) of Trumpeteers
pictures of these 400 meter long test walls will be "promise fulfilled".
Now, what about the Rio Grande? Build a wall down the middle of the river? Build on the US side thus giving the entire river to Mexico?
The Texas ranchers are not going to be happy.
Eugene
(61,894 posts)2. They will probably put the wall on the U.S. side
as they did with the 2006 border wall.
AC360 did a profile on the previous land takings and how thousands
of property owners got hurt and will get hurt.