The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said on Friday it will accept proposals next month for the design of a wall to be built near the U.S.-Mexican frontier, a first step in picking vendors for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall. Way ahead of schedule, way ahead of schedule,” Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. The spokesman said the initial request for information was to give industry the opportunity to tell the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees CBP, what is possible in constructing a border wall. That would be followed by the request for proposals to firm up exactly how much constructing the wall would cost. With 654 miles (1,046 km) of the border already fortified, the new construction would extend almost the length of the entire border.

Source: Huffington Post February 25, 2017 01:39 UTC