Donald Trump wants to pass millions of hard working Americans' tax-dollars on a wall betwixt the U.S. together with Mexico. KPBS claims that 653 miles of that wall already exists, 90% of which was built inward solely the final 12 years yesteryear Presidents Bush together with Obama.
KPBS submitted a position out of Freedom of Information requests to U.S. Customs together with Border Protection inward guild to larn where that 'wall' is together with when these sections were built. You tin explore the information on their novel interactive map America's Wall.
Using the map y'all tin direct sections of the wall to run into when it was constructed together with what type of physical barrier it is. You tin too work the timeline nautical chart to run into how much of this existing wall was built inward whatever especial year. This timeline is synced to the map. When y'all click on the nautical chart the map is filtered to solely exhibit the sections built inward the selected year.
USA Today flew & drove along the entire 2,000-mile edge betwixt the U.S. together with Mexico. During these journeys they mapped every known slice of the existing edge debate betwixt the 2 countries. You tin stance the locations of this existing edge debate together with too stance the aerial video USA Today shot during their flying along the edge on their interactive map.
Should nosotros build a wall? H5N1 2,000-mile search for answers non solely maps the existing edge debate but too explores some of the problems the USA could appear upward inward trying to build Trump's wall betwixt United Mexican States & the USA. The map shows where the existing debate consists of vehicle barriers, pedestrian fencing, other fencing together with where no fencing currently exists.
The starting fourth dimension of 'Should nosotros build a wall' is inward a floor map format. This department explores some of the geographical, economical together with legal problems the USA could appear upward inward trying to build Trump's wall. You tin stance some of these geographical problems yourself inward the USA Today's aerial videos. If y'all scroll to the bottom of the floor map together with click on the 'Explore the map' push clitoris y'all tin click on the map to stance videos of the aerial footage captured during the flying along the border.
'Should nosotros build a wall' is only i run of USA Today's special written report The Wall - an in-depth exam of Donald Trump's edge wall. In the residue of the written report y'all tin read interviews, heed to podcasts together with explore the edge inward virtual reality.
Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting, has too been collecting information on the US-Mexico edge for a position out of years. They convey spent a long fourth dimension mapping the existing edge debate using satellite imagery together with regime PDF maps of the border.
From this information Reveal has discovered that only about 700 miles of the 1,954 mile-long U.S.-Mexico edge is already fenced. Trump's novel wall volition so require to last at to the lowest degree 1,300 miles long. That's a lot of Chinese steel. You tin explore Reveal's piece of work on their The Wall interactive map. The map shows the electrical flow debate together with shows where it is a 'vehicular' together with where it is a 'pedestrian' fence. The map too shows where no debate currently exists.
You tin acquire a practiced feel of the scale of structure needed to build Trump's novel wall inward a video from the Intercept. The Intercept downloaded together with stitched together 200,000 satellite images to do a huge strip map of the U.S.-Mexican border. You tin stance this strip map inward Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border, a curt video which pans along the whole border.
From Donald Trump's 'detailed' structure plans nosotros know that the Trump Wall volition last upward to xv meters high, made of concrete together with steel (but too perchance fencing) together with volition last 1,954 miles long. If y'all are having difficulty envisioning only how far 1,954 miles is together with then y'all tin work the Berliner Morgenpost's interactive map. The Trump Wall Comparison Map allows y'all to overlay an outline of Trump's proposed edge wall betwixt the USA together with United Mexican States on whatever other place on Earth.
If y'all desire to do your ain Trump Wall map together with then y'all tin acquire Reveal's data for the US-Mexico edge debate on Github. You tin read to a greater extent than nearly how this information was collected together with mapped inward the Reveal article The Wall: Building a continuous US-Mexico barrier would last a tall order.
