BORDER/CALIFORNIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Eight prototype designs of President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border will be demolished in San Diego, U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed Friday [2-22-19]. The border-security agency has not released details about its timeline for the demolition, but construction crews have begun work in the area to replace wire-mesh secondary fencing with taller, 30-foot-tall bollards. Questions over the future of the eight structures — four made of solid concrete and four of mixed materials — had been unclear. CBP had decided to keep the prototypes, which Trump visited in March, at the eastern outskirts of San Diego, just dozens of feet from the older, corrugated metal barrier that separates that city from a working-class neighborhood in Tijuana. After Trump’s high-profile visit to the area last year, the structures became the most identifiable and tangible symbol of the president’s oft-repeated campaign promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.”
-Rafael Carranza, “Trump’s border wall prototypes in San Diego to be removed,” USA Today, February 22, 2019 7:06 pm