Posted on 01/26/2017 8:04:59 AM PST by Kaslin
It is very important to realize some very important things.
1) This is not going to be easy or quick, just determined for once.
2) There are priorities here. The wall is the easy part. Rounding up a large number of criminals and gang bangers is going to be hard, as well as dealing with them. During and after the courts approve deportation, they have to be put in holding facilities until we can deport them. These facilities almost have to be under Customs authority, or federal judges will order them released.
A major problem to both the US and Mexico are the drug cartels, so the wall will need to starve them by blocking the drugs and the money. In the short term, this will raise the level of violence in northern Mexico, which will try to spill across the border. CPB might have to be augmented by US Army.
3) Don’t demand clear and easy to understand goals too quickly. While building the wall is a great milestone, after that is going to be a bruising fight on a bunch of levels.
It is not outside the realm of possibility that the US will need to use an island detention center, much like Gitmo.
And put the thumb screws on any business that hires illegals your papers please.
I know but $20million PER MILE?
And construction engineers here?
You could EASILY start with nothing but two chain-link fences separated by 100 yards of sand.
With guards driving patrols and IR cameras to quickly respond to any footsteps in the sand...
Then you re-inforce the problem areas, which will be always changing.
A parallel all weather road (not paved) will cost 3-600grand per mile, or more, depending on the terrain. Alot of the cost is getting construction materials to remote locations. If we are building a two layered wall with a security road, this cost is reasonable for estimating purposes.
I would assume costs of material, equipment, transportation, building access roads to the wall, surveillance equipment, etc . This isn’t no cinderblock wall a few feet high. I’m sure that part of the wall will actually be beneath the ground. That’s a lot of steel, concrete, and asphalt.
Two chain links will work great with constant monitoring. But monitoring is also a cost.
Probably an expensive government contractor. The Israeli T walls along with sensing barbed wire are probably what is needed but not enough. The Israeli anti terror border must be expensive. Depends on the quality you want
I saw an article that claimed he wouldn’t be able to find folks to build the wall w/o hiring illegals - any bets the article was wrong?.....
I would not be surprised if the article was wrong
but we don’t need to build a cadillac all at once
Start with a two fence barrier with a 100 yards of groomed sand between them, and patrol vehicles, that cruise back and forth. Anyone between the fences is in the wrong place...
Rapid response teams for any footprints seen. Drones fly overhead. Cheap and fast.
THEN build it up in the bad spots.
Maybe it’s because in addition to concete and steel it will include guard posts, high tech cameras / surveillance systems, power/ data / utility lines, and access roads along the entire length. It’s not as simple as installing a chain link fence or security fence around your property.
JMHO
We already have agents on staff
Just post them every quarter of a mile with constant changing patrols
Then we need secured outposts and roads linking them with support. Trust me, I've done this for military bases overseas. Our southern border is similar. It all has a cost. The best approach utilizes a mixture on many different methods. For example, in some areas we should add ground sensors to identify tunneling. In other areas aerial drone support. In all areas, the manpower and equipment necessary to secure the border.
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