Posted on 11/29/2018 4:04:56 PM PST by BeauBo
The $5 billion addition will buy “215 miles of Border Patrol’s highest priority border wall miles,” said a statement by agency spokeswoman Katie Waldman.
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[roughly] 5 miles in San Diego Sector in California
[roughly] 14 miles in El Centro Sector in California
[roughly] 27 miles in Yuma Sector in Arizona
[roughly] 9 miles in El Paso Sector in New Mexico
[roughly] 55 miles in Laredo Sector in Texas
[roughly] 104 miles in Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas
Send the bill to Mexico.
Even ONE MILE of wall, if placed in the right spot, makes life tougher for the Illegals. 215 miles will help tremendously.
Just a bummer that Trump wouldn’t shut down the government 2 years ago for this.
Wish we could obtain $25B in funding and get ‘er done. The wall will pay for itself in lower welfare, school, hospital costs.
$5,000,000,000 / 215 = $23,255,813 Per mile?
I know it’s a government contract, but $23 million for a mile? That seems expensive. How many land mines could one purchase for $23 million?
That’s a very good start! Building the wall in sections to fortify the busiest crossing areas is totally fine with me.
Mexico will pay for this one way or another, I’ve no doubt.
But that doesn’t mean those feckless, wholly-owned Dems and RINOs in Congress will fund it in the first place. That’s the biggest challenge/hurdle. And we didn’t get any closer after losing the House to the open borders Left.
That’s $4,400.00 per foot. I did subcontracting on government projects for many years and that seem like ridiculous to infinity.
I was hoping he would get a better price on it, but I’ll be glad for whatever can be done to reduce illegals from entering USA
Pass a Build the Wall Bond. 10% paid by the government and “recovered” from Mexico. You would have the money in no time at all. Would only have to pay the interest on money initially.
I agree. I mean: I’ll take whatever I can get, but if this is what they plan to spend, they are being wasteful. I support a cheap wall with land mines behind it. The wall can serve as a warning and deterrent. Cheap land mines can send the full message.
maybe he can get the money then renegotiate with builders for more miles for the amount he gets congress to approve?
Gotta be effective cheaper ways to close up areas they cross most or easiest
Liberals like the phrase, Bridges, not Walls.
I like these phrases:
Landmines, not Walls.
Machine Gun Nests, not Walls.
Live Fire Drill Restricted Areas, not Walls.
Alligator Filled Moats, not Walls.
Walls and more Walls.
You won't get it anyway, but the idea that a minefield of sufficient density to be effective uncovered by fire will be cheap is a pipedream. Don't make the cheapos anymore.
a mine field a 1/2 mile thick across the entire border distance would be far cheaper, and a huge deterrent. Figure 20,000,000 landmines even at a cost of $30 each ($600 million total), that would be 10,000 landmines per mile across. You’d have to be really stupid to cross that border.
At this stage why can’t they incorporate laser fencing.
One linear foot is 30 feet tall as well, if they are still building the wall to the height they spec’d it to. Tally that in.
that is a very very expensive wall, but i guess extremely high costs are to be expected of a government program
let’s get it done, already!
Yes, I understand the scope of the project.
They’ll either go around it, or bring explosives and blow holes in it. They’re like a well-nourished virus: they just don’t stop. They’re too well funded.
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