Website Lets You Virtually Build the Mexico Border Wall Poorva Joshi - Hindustan Times
go to original February 14, 2017

A blank wall doesn’t look too appealing. Add some pictures. (buildthatwall.tech)

Step 1: Choose the location you want to start building the wall at – from Tijuana and Douglas, both in California, and El Paso and Brownsville in Texas.

Step 2: Choose the height of the wall. The upper limit is 70 ft, as per President Trump’s proposal. And it needs to be that tall to stop undocumented Mexican immigrants from entering the US. Of course, higher the wall, higher the infrastructural cost.

Step 3: To ensure the wall is sturdy, choose between cement, brick and stone as raw material for the wall. The cost of construction may vary according to the material, but, don’t worry: safety comes first. It’s a pity Ambuja cement isn’t an option – there’s your solution to an unbreakable wall.

Step 4: Obviously, a blank wall doesn’t look too appealing. So, you might want to add graffiti on it. Perhaps the national flag of the United States? Or even better, President Trump’s face plastered all over it. That should keep the Mexicans out.

Step 5: Your wall is now complete. The average cost of the project is over $150 billion. Note here that Trump has claimed it will cost anywhere between $8 to $12 billion.

Step 6: Now, let the enormity of that amount sink in. Then, question the legitimacy of the project and note that this proposal is now an actual executive order, as signed by Trump on January 25.

Such is the purpose of buildthatwall.tech, a virtual reality website created by Ashish Limaye, a VR developer based in Portland, USA. The website enables viewers to get a 360 degree, on-ground view of what The Wall might look like.

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