Trump team discussing border wall with Army Corps, Interior Department

CNN Politics ^ | January 13, 2017 | Rene Marsh

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President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is engaged in active discussions with the US Army Corps of Engineers and Interior Department to begin planning a wall along the Mexican border, including how specific environmental laws could get in the way, CNN has learned.

A US official with knowledge of a visit last last month to the Interior Department -- which oversees most federal lands and major environmental laws -- said the transition team was particularly interested in finding out "how long it would take" to build the wall given potential legal obstacles.

"It seems clear they were trying to size up the environmental laws that may be obstacles to building the wall," the source said.

Another US official told CNN the Trump transition team has also reached out to the Army Corps of Engineers' Southwest Division, that has previously built border security fencing, to determine what previous fencing cost and how it was constructed. The team also asked Interior several questions, including how much wall would be needed, in an effort to determine a solid number of miles of wall necessary to secure the southern border....

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[lurk]

First, just get a design schematic from Israel. No need to start fresh.

Second, start with the top 10 crossing zones, putting in a 50 mile stretch in each.

[Neidermeyer]

Fences were being built but O stopped it all when he became President. Just simply stopped all of it while it was in progress.
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So the environmental impact studies and such were obviously already completed and the wall/fence can move ahead without delay.