"$80 billion" was Jeff's figure - not mine - you will have to ask him where he got it.
I got my information from this article posted on FR.
My bad - I had a decimal in the wrong place - it should be $8 billion, not $80 billion.
I got my information from this article posted on FR. to build wall after blasting Israel's
The ultimate contract is estimated to be worth several hundred million dollars. Each kilometer of Israel's fence cost $1 million to build. Bases, sophisticated transit points, and observation and command-and-control systems cost $2 million per kilometer.
Of course their fence is much more sophisticated then what we would need.
Clawarence, note from the thread that the EU isn't against having borders either.