President Trump tweets 'We will BUILD THE WALL!'

Trump had recently said that the proposed wall along the border with Mexico could have solar panels fixed to it.

Even more interestingly, that kind of massive investment in solar energy could help drive down the cost of solar technology elsewhere in the country. "And this way, Mexico will have to pay much less money, and that's good, right?" the President said. "We're thinking about building the wall as a solar wall, so it creates energy, and pays for itself".

President Donald Trump is tweeting that his planned border wall is still in the pipeline.

And, of course, to a cheering crowd, Trump added that Mexico will still be paying for it.

Gleason Partners was responding to a request for proposal from the DHS that specifically asked "for offers to be submitted for a Solid Concrete Border Wall".

In the same 24 hour window that he nearly turned his border wall into something. if not exactly a good idea, then definitely facing in the direction where good ideas come from. when he announced that he planned on making the U.S. -Mexico wall out of solar panels.

If Mr. Trump and the Department of Homeland Security are really serious about such a dramatic expansion of the country's renewable energy capacity, there might suddenly be a lot more people chanting "build that wall, build that wall". Managing partner Thomas Gleason said the design for each piece of solar wall is 20-feet-long and 9-feet-high. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said bidding contractors would be identified in June, and selected companies would construct their prototypes near the border in San Diego County this summer.

The report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), however, only includes countries considered to be conflict zones - with Mexico's battle with criminal cartels categorised as such.

According to the latest data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Colombia have higher homicide rates than Mexico.

However, given the country's larger population, the figures also show a homicide rate (per capita) that is significantly lower than a number of other countries in the region, such as Honduras and Belize.

"I think we could make it look handsome, too", he added.