President Trump's Big Wall Is Now Just 74 Miles Long In His Budget Plan

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/24/529904884/president-trumps-big-wall-is-now-just-74-miles-long-in-his-budget-plan

After making the need for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border a central campaign theme, President Trump has asked Congress for just $1.6 billion to start building 74 miles of barriers. Texas alone shares more than 1,200 miles of border with Mexico.

If Congress approves the current request, 14 miles of old fencing in the San Diego sector would be replaced, and 60 miles of new structures would be built in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas — the region with the heaviest illegal t

With the 74 miles of new barriers and 654 miles of existing border fence, more than one-third of the southwest border would be covered.

The request is far less than the $21.6 billion the Homeland Security Department had estimated that wall construction would cost. Still, Trump's request works out to $21.6 million a mile, or nearly $13,000 a yard — for what's expected to be a steel and concrete barrier.

At a congressional hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat who represents portions of South Texas where the new border wall will be built, criticized the expected high cost of construction.

 

 

 

"I don't support the wall," said Cuellar, a Laredo native, to speaking to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. Cuellar said earlier border fencing had been built for a fraction of the current price tag. He questioned why the government needs all new custom surveillance equipment. "There's a lot of technology that works well for the military that should work well for us down there."

Edited May 31, 2017 by ccneat

[ready4ONE 5,400]

I sense Donald Trump will issue an Executive Order stating Mexican nationals are not allowed to go around the 75 miles of fabulous, really the best, the best ever people are saying, wall.

 

Problem solved!

[CaliCat 3,957]

It'll be funny to watch the kool-aid crowd defend the decision to build this symbolic wall, as the fulfillment to build the best and greatest wall ever, because the so-called president knows how to negotiate a construction project. And the Mexican people will happily write him checks to pay for the wall, or is it a levee? Doesn't matter! It'll be the greatest bestest ever wall built in the history of the universe. 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

11 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

It'll be funny to watch the kool-aid crowd defend the decision to build this symbolic wall, as the fulfillment to build the best and greatest wall ever, because the so-called president knows how to negotiate a construction project. And the Mexican people will happily write him checks to pay for the wall, or is it a levee? Doesn't matter! It'll be the greatest bestest ever wall built in the history of the universe. 

The God Emporer has no wall