10.04.2017 - 13:28 [ South China Morning Post ]

Designs for Trump‘s ‘powerful’ Mexico border wall include drones, watchtowers and a toxic trench filled with nuclear waste

Up to 400 bidding contractors were expected to submit their schemes this week to the US Customs and Border Protection agency, in a militarised beauty pageant worthy of one of Trump’s own reality TV shows.
The parameters for proposals were as surreal as the idea for the wall itself; the solicitation notice tinged with the characteristic Trump cocktail of bluster, confusion and backtracking.