POTUS Donnie’s “southern wall” is getting some North American action as Mexican and Puerto Rican companies want some skin in the game – PB/TK
Puerto Rican company puts in bid to build Trump’s border wall – Tré Goins-Phillips March 6, 2017
President Donald Trump’s promised wall along the United States’ southern border will create a few jobs, and one Puerto Rican company wants in on the action.
San Diego Project Management PCS, a Puerto Rican-based company in Luquillo, east of San Juan, put in an application Friday to construct the wall in response to the federal government’s request for proposals, according to TeleSUR, a Latin American news outlet.
Company founder Patrick Balcazar said he has considered the pushback he would receive for signing on to such a project, given that many members of the Hispanic community have not-so-favorable opinions of Trump, who has taken a hardline approach to immigration issues.
Nevertheless, Balcazar says his company is ready for the job.
“There are two ways to look at this,” Balcazar said. “It’s better to be part of the process and participate in it and make sure your engineering standards safeguard lives, or you can let the mercenaries do God knows what.”
“I have a very high level of professional and personal ethics,” he continued. “I work under the rules and never to hurt anyone.”
As it turns out, Balcazar has some competition. Last week, TeleSUR reported, Rogelio Zambrano, chairman of the Mexican company Cemex, said the company would “gladly” offer a quote to the U.S. government.
And Eric Olson, CEO of the world’s largest cement company, LafargeHolcim, said the border wall is “an infrastructure project where we would participate.”
Continue to theblaze.com article: http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/03/06/puerto-rican-company-puts-in-bid-to-build-trumps-border-wall/
