metal wall but at least it stops 90, 95%. when we put up the real wall, we re going to stop 99%, maybe more than that. it will be 99.5% successful. 99.5? maybe 102%? just throwing that number out there. what about the big beautiful door, the infamous big beautiful door in the wall? maybe they can model that on the $139000 doors that everyone is raving about over at the interior department. that s thing 2 in 60 seconds.
eight of them constructed at the san diego site as is often the case, the president latched on to certain key elements. the problem is you have to have see-through. you have to know what s on the other side of the wall. tell them, what do you think about the importance of see through? we re looking at the walls where you have really some see through capability. if you don t have some see through, it s a problem. we re looking very much at the wall with some see-through capability on the other side. what if you made it the wall out of the same fabric after which you constructed the emperor s clothes? just a thought. he noted the importance also of a wall you cannot climb. it s deterrent from getting over the top. who would think, who would think? but getting over the top is easy. these are like professional mountain climbers. incredible climbers. and professional mountain climbers throughout the day, he stressed the effectiveness of the wall in percentage terms. so that s 95%
president trump in san diego just a few moments ago. so we re looking at the wall and the wall systems and we have a lot of them. and this gentlemen who s a real expert, you ve been doing this how long? 25 years, sir. and you were here before they had a wall? correct. i started here in 1992. and what was it like until you built the wall? and the wall, by the way, is that wall up there, which is just sheet metal, but still, at least it works a little bit. how was it before you built a wom wall? there was effectively no border in san diego. it was a chaotic situation. this fence behind me, it was made out of scrap metal that the military wasn t using that we set in place to really delineate the border. you needed something? it changed our environment. we decreased the illegal cross-border traffic by 95% with that fence and the roads and the lights and the technology so that s 95% with a scrap metal wall that they just put together with excess material