{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Border Chronicle","title":"Wall Watch: Mapping Trump’s $46 Billion Border Mega-Project","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3243,"description":"What’s bigger than the Hoover Dam or the Panama Canal? The Trump Administration’s\nspending of more than $46 billion in taxpayer money on border walls, and buoy barriers across\nthe 1,954-mile border. The government mega-project is being carried out with little government\noversight, input from communities, and zero studies on environmental or wildlife impacts.\nThere’s also been no reliable government data, or a way to publicly track the border wall\nconstruction, as it unfolds. This is why The Border Chronicle created a new community-powered\nmapping project, Wall Watch, to track current awarded border wall contracts, surveillance\ntechnology and other border infrastructure.\nBorder Chronicle cofounder Melissa del Bosque and Geographer Dugan Meyer, who built the\ndatabase for the interactive map, describe what you can find on Wall Watch from existing border\nwall to community reports on wall construction, surveying, environmental impacts and buoy\nbarrier installation. It’s easy for border residents to submit a community report, and it helps build\nan accurate picture of construction as it is happening across the U.S.-Mexico border region.\nDel Bosque and Meyer also discuss the challenges of building Wall Watch, and finding reliable\ngovernment data for the map, how Wall Watch will help border residents understand the massive\nmega construction project as it impacts their communities, and how residents can help build a\nmore accurate map by submitting reports on what they’re seeing on the ground. They also talk\nabout the kind of data you can find on Wall Watch, and how it’s available to anyone to download.\nAnd they discuss the administration’s plan to build a “wall system” that includes two walls with\nenforcement zones, patrol roads, surveillance towers and stadium lights along the entire southern\nborder. “When this administration is done, the southern border will look more like a federal\nprison with double walls draped in concertina wire,” said del Bosque. “You only have to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8Xt8-OsJ0dFtSGKSpOfPzahVcvYRaxYGvbcpR9uw56k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NzM3/YWI2NTc4MjM5MTY3/ZjZkN2I0NDdhZWMz/Y2U2ZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}