The Trump administration’s has a new tool in its arsenal to deter undocumented immigration and you can get one on sale at Home Depot for $5.67.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Krisit Noem arrived in Santa Teresa, New Mexico yesterday armed with a paint roller and a can of black paint to paint President Donald Trump’s signature border wall black because the president believes that black paint will make the border wall too hot to climb.
According to a summary of her statements from the Associated Press:
“That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here when something is painted black it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb. So we are going to be painting the entire southern border wall black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not come into our country illegally,” Noem said.
Trump said he wanted to paint the wall black during a visit to a San Diego section in 2019 but he told reporters that the Army Corps of Engineers, which was responsible for the construction, found that unnecessary.
“[The Army Corps of Engineers] feels that we’re better off letting it be a natural rust, letting it be the way it is. We’ll make a determination as to painting it later,” Trump said at the time. “This will be a good strong rust color. And we’ll see. We’ll make that — it’s not a big deal. The black attracts more heat, even than this color. But this is your natural steel and I think we’re going to see how it works out. We can paint at it at a later date if we decide to do it.”
Noem’s visit to the New Mexico border included a flight on a government jet to the location, a helicopter survey of the border with Mexico and the photo opportunity event where she painted a small section of the wall.
Noem later traveled to Ruidoso, New Mexico to view disaster cleanup progress following recent flash flooding there.
“Private government jet”? It is a phrase that needs more explanatio. Where did it come from?
There are many many stories of people being able to cut through the great wall with lithium battery powered power tools and saws and in many cases they’re able to cut whole sections out big enough for trucks and cars to drive through so the whole thing is a ridiculous idea in the first place and now painting it is just a waste of more taxpayer money. MAGA- morons are governing America.
She keeps enabling the crazy.
Trump finally found something for her to do that she was qualified for.
The science between white paint and black paint is that there is little to no difference. Journalists are so lame in their research anymore. Any wonder nobody trusts them?
How many millions will painting the wall cost? So far, only about 1/3 of the US-Mexico border has either been completed or currently under construction (659 miles), and there is roughly 2,000 miles along the border, from California to AZ to NM and through much of TX. Using 2 coats of an epoxy black paint and private contractors to do the job, the cost is estimated to be $1.4 million per mile. That makes the cost just shy of $1,000,000,000 (that’s right, billion). That is the equivelant of the salaries of approximately 9,500 federal workers that lost their jobs so far during Trump’s 2nd term. On a side note, I think Americans have paid for enough expensive photo shoots for Kristi Noem. She should have enough content for her social media by now.
How much is this costing “We the People”?
No wonder hecsoo easily bankrupted his businesses, including a “house always wins” casino…..