Posted on 08/25/2016 10:39:52 AM PDT by Elderberry
Donald Trump laid out new details in a pre-taped interview that aired Wednesday about the border wall he has called to be built on the U.S.-Mexico border.
"I think the height could be 35 to 45 feet. That's a good height. That's a good height. Anywhere in that neighborhood. Could be higher," Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity during the second part of an Austin, Texas, town hall.
The Republican nominee said he plans to install a fence along 1,000 miles of the 2,000-mile border because only that portion needs to be reinforced.
Trump said the current border allows drug cartels to bring drugs into the U.S. and take their money back out with them.
Winter is Coming
A 35-foot pole is a typical length used in cities to carry one or two crossarms.
6 feet of a 35-foot pole would be buried, but if the pole were on a curve, 6.5 feet.
I think Trump might ask Congress to defund the EPA and eliminate the agency entirely.
I had a friend that referred to them generically as being “35 foot pole”
Great idea!
“For another $362 million, the fence could be electrified.”
And for a few million more, we can use solar energy to keep it electrified so that it is carbon neutral. If liberals trash this idea, we can call them planet killers.
I’m willing to compromise on a hybrid wall/fence vs. all wall. I hate when my liberal tendencies come forward :-).
Is that what we are calling land mines these days?
Precast Concrete.
He’s not really going against Ted Cruz’s seat, is he?
I wonder what the plan is for 840 miles of California coastline.
And in Arizona the Tohono O’odham Tribe has 75 miles of border with Mexico and they don’t even allow Border Patrol to enter their land.
These lands will have to be purchased before a fence can be erected on these properties.
An Associated Press analysis of court documents last year found that when homeowners reject the feds' initial offers to buy their borderlands, the cost skyrockets. The Nature Conservancy balked at an offer of $114,000 for a fence on its land in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, and ultimately settled for $1 million. A developer in Brownsville, Texas, was offered $233,000 but ended up with $4.7 million three years later
-PJ
Fine - build the border wall on the north side of these guys property. So they get to enjoy being on the south side of The Wall.
“EPA will shoot it down. It will never pass environmental review.”
It will be Trump’s EPA. Probably run by Sarah Palin.
“Activate and reuse”
Two flights a day, 2500 each = 5000 a day.
300 days * 5000 = 15,000,000
That’s more than the 11,000,000 illegals said to be here.
Include $2000 for each family = 30 Billion.
Killing off the EPA and Department of Education to pay for it = 76 Billion
Savings by getting rid of illegals = 46 billion.
A lot of that desert land is next to worthless. This is what 5th amendment eminent domain was meant to address.
It isn’t enough that we shipped a lot of our jobs south (Carrier air conditioning in my neighborhood, putting hundreds of Hoosiers out of work): remittances are Mehseeco’s biggest source of income.
Mexico can pay fair market value for the land, they can pay to build the damn wall 30 feet high, to keep out their people, and they get to pay to maintain it as well.
Despite what American’ts say.
30 feet high= 40 feet high
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