WHY DOES THE WALL COST $20 MILLION PER MILE?????
Because concrete and steel isn’t cheap!
I suspect the costs may be predicated and guesstimated upon the costs for constructing a mile of interstate road. How accurate this is for construction on our southern border is debatable.
See this: “In 1996 dollars, the Federal Highway Administration has calculated the “weighted rural and urban combined” costs per mile of interstate highway to be $20.6 million.(9) Other highway construction normally ranges from $1 million to $5 million per mile, but in mountainous regions, like West Virginia, the costs can be as ...”
Highway Construction Costs Under Government Provision
www-pam.usc.edu/volume2/v2i1a3s2.html
A parallel all weather road (not paved) will cost 3-600grand per mile, or more, depending on the terrain. Alot of the cost is getting construction materials to remote locations. If we are building a two layered wall with a security road, this cost is reasonable for estimating purposes.
I would assume costs of material, equipment, transportation, building access roads to the wall, surveillance equipment, etc . This isn’t no cinderblock wall a few feet high. I’m sure that part of the wall will actually be beneath the ground. That’s a lot of steel, concrete, and asphalt.
Probably an expensive government contractor. The Israeli T walls along with sensing barbed wire are probably what is needed but not enough. The Israeli anti terror border must be expensive. Depends on the quality you want