Posted on 12/20/2016 6:27:32 AM PST by Helicondelta
In advance of taking office in January, Donald Trump's transition team has people surveying the Texas-Mexico border for places to build a wall. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, says while some areas don't want the structure, they're being told to submit ideas anyway.
Click through to see images of the border being patrolled and the current security.
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What areas wouldn’t want a wall? I dont live down there so I don’t know. Are there valid reasons in some areas?
Cool!
YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I imagine it’s the Mexicans / drug cartels that don’t want it in high traffic areas...
Trump pledged to make Mexico foot the bill for the wall, but never provided specifics on how collecting for the construction would work.”
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Umm yeah he did
https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/Pay_for_the_Wall.pdf
This has been done already and should be on file in Congress since this horse has been run around that ol race track before
I think I read there are places that don’t want it. Oh well, like the closing song from the DJT thank you tour. “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”. Once started, with new improved contractors, will it come in ahead of schedule and under budget? Take some of the money that goes to the ‘U’seless ‘N’ to build the “barrier”. You gotta take care of yourself first in order to help others.
Saw a recent report - Texas Gov Abbott says he does NOT want to put the wall up along the national park (Big Bend). That’s HUNDREDS of miles to leave open.
Call him now and register your displeasure with this looney idea
(512) 463-1782
We need to start by putting troops on the border to supplement the border patrol.
Is a state governor the boss of a national park?
What matters is the opinion.
Let’s NOT let Republicans go wobbly.
Build the wall ~1 mile south of the Rio Grande.
The wall is great.
But I want 100% of the VISA overstays deported, the end of anchor baby laws, and the absolute halt of refugees from uncivilized nations including LatAm and the Mideast.
If the Rio Grande was your cattle's water source you might have some concern...
If those hundreds of miles are hundreds of miles from nowhere with no road to anywhere else from anywhere else - and they are, you don’t need the same 12 foot high, double fence with sensors that you do when the border goes between two cities. It is like fencing Alaska from Canada.
Ain’t nobody there to cross, and ain’t no way to get there to cross there, and ain’t no way to get to back to anywhere else once you cross there. In places.
So Donald Trump has hired engineers and construction specialists on his own dime to figure out where to put the wall? I highly doubt this. Once he’s in office, he’ll tell the appropriate government agency to do it.
Why yes there is.
There is private land all the way up to the river. How will access be granted to the these acres or will Trump just condemn thousands and thousands of acres?
Some of this land belongs to people who are actually of Mexican decent. How do you handle the turn over of this land to the US Authorities or do you just take it?
Some of this land has 99 year leases with the Texas government going back to when it was a Republic for farming operations and now has vast acreages of pecan groves planted on it and its only water comes from a canal that runs right along side of the Rio Grande where either a wall will more than likely put it on the Mexico side or cause it to be rerouted thru these groves. This will destroy them and a fence makes more sense.
This has ALL been hashed over before when the FERAL Government APPROVED the fence and then Kay Bailey Hutchinson shut it down because cheap labor advocates knew what it would do to them and she wanted to line her pockets before she left office.
Trump will face stiff opposition if he thinks he will come in and condemn land in Texas. There will be a fight if he comes in and tries to take land that has belonged to Texans for generations.
Do not mess with Texas is more than just as saying, it is a STATEMENT.
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