My gosh. Trump has build large buildings and various other construction projects. If there is ANYONE that is running that has all the tools at his beck and call to build the wall, it is Trump. Nobody else has near the abilities to get this done. 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. Anybody who doubts this is as dishonest as Cruz.
Trump builds 90 story buildings, that is much harder to build.
Trump says he will use 44 foot prepoured pre fab concrete plank. Says wall will cost 11 billion dollars.
Mexico will pay for it. One thing he has not mentioned is we give Mexico 14 billion in foreign aid per year. So we just don’t give them the money and the wall is paid for.
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.
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I doubt they can even come close to getting ready, especially property ROW in that short timeframe
where there is no border fence currently in place.
“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.
Cruz could hire Trump to do this, and I’m sure Trump would coordinate the contracting and make sure we had a great wall that did the job.
A Trump wall would be huge! It has to be long enough, tall enough, sturdy enough, with enough layers, and monitored so that anyone damaging/climbing/tunneling it gets caught. Then we need to track those who enter legally and make sure they go home at the end of their authorized stay.
I’m happy with either President Cruz or, if the voters prefer, with Supreme Court Justice Cruz nominated by President Trump and confirmed by our Senate (which would probably be happy to be rid of him).
He'd have to get Congressional approval and funding before building it. So I doubt those bulldozers would be working day one.
Guess that make me dishonest.
With illegal immigrant labor?
“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.”
You betcha! And I see immediately troops, maybe National Guard, backing up the Border Patrol.
We also need to reframe this whole argument on illegal immigration. When somebody challenges us on illegal immigration the immediate response should be to ask what type of pro-illegal they are. They either want to exploit the illegals for cheap labor or for a scheme to generate a new group of voters. Ask them how they justify encouraging illegals to risk their very lives to come to the United States. I wish we could take these people out to the desert southwest to help pick up the bodies of those that didn't make it. Supporting illegal immigration is supporting the exploitation of human capital, and that is evil.
And I have seen Donald Trump lift 5000 pounds right over his head.
Surprise. Congress has to authorize the money!!