Posted on 10/09/2015 5:24:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A roughly 2,000-mile fence on the Mexican border would cost tens of billions.
If Donald Trump were to build a wall along the United States' southern border, it would cost billions.
The U.S. border with Mexico is roughly 2,000 miles long and underlines four states from California to Texas. It is a massive stretch of land the Berlin Wall spanned just 96 miles comparatively, and it cost about $25 million to build in 1961, or around $200 million with inflation.
Building a wall to keep out illegal immigrants is not a novel plan. About 670 miles of fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border was completed in accordance with the Bush administration's Secure Fence Act of 2006. That alone cost about $2.4 billion, for roughly one-third of the entire border and, according to migration experts, some of the easier and less costly areas to fence.
The Secure Fence Act called for 700 miles of fencing, with a double layer throughout, but much of the barrier isn't reinforced this way. Even before the fence reached its first stage of completion, some argued it was not being constructed properly....
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Trump is the master of leverage, if someone could figure out how to do that, he’d probably be that someone. Mexico would be finagled into providing the labor and materials.
Deduct the cost from foreign aid to Mexico.
Hungary put theirs up in days and it’s worked. it’s not meant to be permanent but the armed guards make up for that ;)
“Or trillions of dollars and thousands of deaths, rapes, molestations and other crimes...”
Bingo!!!
Abolish the IRS, Dept. of Education and EPA and there’s the funds...
They didn’t have a fascist EPA requiring a 2 year environmental impact study.
Let’s suspend that crap and the wall will go up quickly!
“Hire the Israelis. $3 billion well spent.”
Don’t hire whoever mismanaged healthcare.gov
The same people who believe the wall is impossible have no problem paying $68 Billion for 568 miles of light rail in California....which for some reason is no problem.
A “wall” could consist of an adequate number of border patrol agents empowered to do their job.
Easy peazy rough and sleazy. Just put every illegal caught to work on the wall until done.
No quick return to Meheeko. They work for room and board until the project is done. That includes every man, woman, and child over 17.
Wanna bet in just a few months there will hardly be any need for the wall?
It should still get built though.
even if true worth every fuching penny.
Yes, they are afraid.
True, but they didn’t have the “Chicago Union Thuggery or the FOA (friends of Obama)” to explode the cost!!!
Foreign aid to Mexico is less than $1 billion/year. Good luck with that.
Fund the wall with a lottery for machine gunner positions. I alone will buy 10 tickets.
He's going to make them pay every peso for that wall.
It will obviously cost 80 bajillion dollars. The science is settled.
Exactly.
Build the damn wall.
Heck probably enough of us old Vets would squander down there, and love to have a hand in building it, accomplish more then our time in Viet Nam
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