US demolishes Trump’s border wall prototypes
A construction vehicle collapsing one of the eight prototypes border walls between Mexico and the United States as seen from Tijuana, Mexico, today. – EPA pic, February 28, 2019.
PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico has yet to be built and yesterday, US authorities began demolishing the prototypes constructed for it in California 16 months ago. The eight models of concrete and steel were unveiled in October 2017, at a cost of more than US$300,000 each, on the edge of San Diego at the border with Tijuana, Mexico.
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