Donald Trump’s ‘Prototypes’ in San Diego becomes art
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President Donald Trump’s “Prototypes” in San Diego, California might soon gain the status of a national monument.Eight types of walls have been chosen to expand the barrier between Mexico and California. During the election campaign, Trump suggested thaDonald Trump’s ‘Prototypes’ in San Diego becomes art
President Donald Trump’s “Prototypes” in San Diego, California might soon gain the status of a national monument.Eight types of walls have been chosen to expand the barrier between Mexico and California. During the election campaign, Trump suggested that this barrier be enlarged by getting Mexico to foot the bill. The Prototypes project is a temporary work of landscape art, but the MAGA non-profit organization is working towards making it a historical and permanent monument, protected by the 1906 Antiquities Act. The association organizes tours between San Diego (California) and Tijuana (Mexico), on fixed dates, to show the different types of walls in the context of the border.Following Trump’s request for Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements, Customs and Border Protection issued two requests for proposals for the design of walls with the aim of building a number of prototypes, and went on to shortlist eight such prototypes from six companies. Four of them are built out of reinforced concrete and four others use different construction materials.The building of these walls was completed in a month on October 26, 2017. Safety tests commenced soon after to monitor attempts to “dig, scale or violate” the walls. The choice and final design will be followed by construction of 2000 miles of wall. The MAGA organization is appealing for these walls not to be demolished and is asking for them to be considered as works of art with a historical memory. However, it appears that it has been the United States that has paid for the walls, and not Mexico, as President Trump provocatively suggested, noted Domus. Read more