Donald Trump wants transparent border wall so airborne bags of drugs don’t hit people’s heads 
Donald Trump has said his planned border wall with Mexico should be made of transparent material such as plastic or glass. Acknowledging it was a “crazy” idea, he said the wall would need to be see-through to stop passers-by being hit with heavy sacks of drugs being thrown over it. The comments were made while Mr Trump was travelling on Air Force One on a state visit in France. Britain on standby for last-minute Donald Trump visit “One of the things with the wall is you need transparency,” he told reporters, who did not immediately realise he was being serious. “So it could be a steel wall with openings, but you have to have openings because you have to see what’s on the other wide of the wall,” he said. “You have to be able to see through it. “As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them. They hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It’s over.”
Natural barriers Mr Trump also said that only a part of the frontier with Mexico would need a wall to prevent illegal migrants getting in. “It’s a 2,000 (3,218 kilometer) mile border, but you don’t need 2,000 miles of wall because you have a lot of natural barriers,” he said. “You have mountains. You have some rivers that are violent and vicious. You have some areas
that are so far away that you don’t really have people crossing.” The White House provided a partial transcript of the US president’s remarks on Friday, after initially saying they were off the record. Manifesto promise Mr Trump’s plan for a “big beautiful wall”, paid for by Mexico, was a refrain of his Presidential election campaign. The government issued two notices for border wall proposals earlier this year. The first called for a solid structure up to 30 feet (9.14 meters) high. The second called for other types of walls, including something that was transparent. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has said that border agents should to be able to see what is on the other side of a barrier for security and safety reasons. When Mr Trump met the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto last week at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, he said he “absolutely” still wanted Mexico to pay for the wall.
Donald Trump has said his planned border wall with Mexico should be made of transparent material such as plastic or glass. Acknowledging it was a “crazy” idea, he said the wall would need to be see-through to stop passers-by being hit with heavy sacks of drugs being thrown over it. The comments were made while Mr Trump was travelling on Air Force One on a state visit in France. Britain on standby for last-minute Donald Trump visit “One of the things with the wall is you need transparency,” he told reporters, who did not immediately realise he was being serious. “So it could be a steel wall with openings, but you have to have openings because you have to see what’s on the other wide of the wall,” he said. “You have to be able to see through it. “As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them. They hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It’s over.”
Natural barriers Mr Trump also said that only a part of the frontier with Mexico would need a wall to prevent illegal migrants getting in. “It’s a 2,000 (3,218 kilometer) mile border, but you don’t need 2,000 miles of wall because you have a lot of natural barriers,” he said. “You have mountains. You have some rivers that are violent and vicious. You have some areas
that are so far away that you don’t really have people crossing.” The White House provided a partial transcript of the US president’s remarks on Friday, after initially saying they were off the record. Manifesto promise Mr Trump’s plan for a “big beautiful wall”, paid for by Mexico, was a refrain of his Presidential election campaign. The government issued two notices for border wall proposals earlier this year. The first called for a solid structure up to 30 feet (9.14 meters) high. The second called for other types of walls, including something that was transparent. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has said that border agents should to be able to see what is on the other side of a barrier for security and safety reasons. When Mr Trump met the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto last week at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, he said he “absolutely” still wanted Mexico to pay for the wall.
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