I’d prefer to get back a portion of what we will save when it’s built instead...
Which based on my simple calumniation could be quite a bit
Seeing as the wall would cost an estimated $21.6 billion
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-wall-exclusive-idUSKBN15O2ZN
and illegals cost us anywhere from $49 to $279 billion annually depending on the source
-—Our ruling
The White House claimed that “current immigration policy imposes as much as $300 billion annually in net fiscal costs on U.S. taxpayers.”
A study from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine analyzed the fiscal impact of immigration under different scenarios. Under some assumptions, the fiscal burden was $279 billion, but $43 billion in other scenarios.-—
and does not even factor in the billions siphoned off our economy but spent in other economies..
-—Migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean are sending more money to their families back home than ever before.
These annual “remittances” — as they’re called by analysts — topped $69 billion in 2016, according to central bank data compiled in a new report by the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank. The money has been a lifeline for the national economies of many countries in the region since at least the 1990s, when Manuel Orozco, a political scientist who authored the report, first began tracking remittances. They climbed steadily since then, only to plummet when the Great Recession hit the U.S. economy in 2008. But they began to rise again in 2012. The 2016 tally is the highest amount on record and an increase of nearly 8 percent over 2015.
About 40 percent of the money goes to just one country — Mexico — practically all of it sent by migrants in the United States.-—
Hell yes.
No! The government takes in enough money(taxes and tariffs). We need to hold our Rep. responsible to spend our money the right way. Call your Rep., let our voices be heard.
If I had extra money.
YES!!
Depends on the rate of return
HELL YES where do I sign up!!!!
Not of the kind that the Don’t-Kill-the-Job border agents’ union seems to have suckered the Trump admin into. Those ballards are just ready for easy climbing. 30’ is nothing in this context.
For example, take a look at this simple climb up a metal post. Cinches and elementary climbing materials can also easily be rigged for the ballard-based “wall”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwL08O-LqYM