{"id":96781,"date":"2017-04-04T04:20:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T08:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=96781"},"modified":"2017-04-04T04:20:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T08:20:19","slug":"border-wall-contractors-prepare-for-a-hostile-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/04\/border-wall-contractors-prepare-for-a-hostile-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Border wall contractors prepare for a hostile environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_96025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96025\" style=\"width: 801px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-148.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96025\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-148.png\" alt=\"One potential bidder on President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under \u201chostile attack.\u201d (Photo: Jonathan McIntosh\/ Flickr)\" width=\"801\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-148.png 801w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-148-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-148-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One potential bidder on President Donald Trump&#8217;s border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under \u201chostile attack.\u201d (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonathanmcintosh\/3975891572\/in\/photolist-74ku3G-QLeaL3-6a1WZr-7bnmaL-72HiX-79UTjF-29RktJ-RTuo9L-StnBbc-79XmZG-pukbnM-puk7v8-79TkDk-SpA9aC-pu6Jem-7abPZw-cizC43-7abRgu-puk6hg-6gu4Mm-qAKjS-pNyzpo-6a67Us-pw3TBM-nB2qEt-qAKoK-q8ywJ7-RecthX-SthGRk-StLiNB-q9weyw-RpZRzH-55nF1r-Sh5Y3t-RtdLom-Srk5bE-Sh5T7r-RZ1VeY-RZbpdL-6VbFB-QLf7fy-pNyCkd-SBpqEm-SpAjQ5-RsW1iu-pw3VAB-RRtXh4-Rr8diz-SpAeVW-QTByF\">Jonathan McIntosh\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SAN DIEGO \u2014 One potential bidder on President Donald Trump&#8217;s border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under \u201chostile attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another asked if employees can carry firearms in states with strict gun control laws and if the government would indemnify them for using deadly force.<\/p>\n<p>With bids due Tuesday on the first design contracts, interested companies are preparing for the worst if they get the potentially lucrative job.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. official with knowledge of the plans who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the details haven&#8217;t been made public said four to 10 bidders are expected to be chosen to build prototypes.<\/p>\n<p>They will be constructed on a roughly quarter-mile (400-meter) strip of federally-owned land in San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \u2014 One potential bidder on President Donald Trump&#8217;s border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":96025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[17086,9869],"class_list":["post-96781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-border-wall","tag-donald-trump","mauthors-elliot-spagat","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}