[NewRomeTacitus]

Thirty-one million dollars per mile for the border fence? Someone's been getting ahold of that hallucinogen the Supreme Court said an obscure church has a right to trip on.

Seriously, if we go with classic lowest bidder combined with border-hoppers forced to perform construction this would come in WAY under these grossly inflated cost estimates. My way has the added disincentive value of those lining up on the other side seeing the hard labor being done by those who preceded them.

The only problem we have with border enforcement is citizens interfering with it...bad business-people needing neoslaves to compete with the law-abiding should be allowed to fail instead of getting a bye from strategic political contributions (at the expense of the honestly successful).

It's all about corruption. Are we going to clean up our act and resume our place as the world's role model or are we going to "get along to go along" into a stagnate backwater of our own making?

[NewRomeTacitus]

It's "go along to get along", and the right word was "stagnant". Hey, my dyslexic parents named me Mikel. I'm fighting a genetic tendacitynous.

[raybbr]

Thirty-one million dollars per mile for the border fence?

That's not for the fence - it's to build the roads for the NAFTA corridor.

[robertpaulsen]

There's gotta be a decimal point error. The Israeli wall goes for about $3M per mile, and that includes command and control systems.

The complete U.S.-Mexican fence should cost no more than $6B.