“I EASILY can see the bulldozers and other heavy equipment with contractors at the boarder immediately after swearing in and the first dirt moving the second after swearing in.”
Funding it would be an issue as that would have to go through Congress. But perhaps Trump could encourage that to happen right away using the “bully pulpit”. And then get started where we already have access and have planned on putting up fences (”a wall”) for the last 30 years that were never built.
Doing the entire border will run into lots of problems with regard to private property rights - especially when the cattle’s source of water is the Rio Grande. Although I imagine some clever diversions of the flow could be figured out.
Although I haven’t seen that type of stuff discussed. More just the Feds move in, take the land, and tell the rancher “too bad”. And by take I mean pay. But they pay for the 300 feet along the border - but that makes the thousands of acres to the north worthless, seeing as now there is no water.
Please remember that to Trump, taking private property through eminent domain is a beautiful thing.