About like your typical rural Interstate cost?
It's costing $75 million per mile. Traffic might get a little better, too, when it's done, but it's not stopping any illegal immigration.
Just build the fence. Print more money if you have to.
its either a wall at the border or a wall around your local neighborhood like they have in south america.
I estimated it would be about the same as an interstate a long time ago. Not that it has to be, it's just what Bush et. al. will force it to be. For example, you don't have to litigate anything, if private land owners don't want the fence, just let the illegals be focused through their land.
This doesn't need to be the Great Wall of China to be effective.
How about like the walls that line urban interstates shielding residential areas.
They are often 20 feet high and are made of prestressed concrete modular componants. They are apparently the most cost effective solution because they are everywhere.
The federal government will have to reach deep into taxpayers' pockets if it goes ahead with plans to build a security wall along the U.S.-Mexican border – it could cost at least $3 million per mile."
"About like your typical rural Interstate cost?"
Yup. NOT a big deal! We spent $280 billion on highways in the last highway bill, over 5 years.
that 'bridge to nowhere' cost $400 million and did little.
Spending $3 billion for about 1000 miles of border fence will pay for itself in a year or two in reduced costs in other areas.