If the Big Dig cost $16 billion and it’s still flooding, a fence run by the governmnet would be vastly more expensive.
If you want a fence, why go to the gov’t? Why not find private citizens who will buy the land and pay a private company to build a fence?
If you want a fence, why go to the gov’t? Why not find private citizens who will buy the land and pay a private company to build a fence?”
Again, why not slam a hefty tax on the money illegals send home. This money more than likely was earned “off the books”
They came here illegally, let them pay for the wall. Send Messico or any other country the bill for incarceration of THEIR citizens who are now residing in our prisons (60,000+ a year annually for each one.
The Secure Border Initiative (SBI) was a program created by Secretary Chertoff of DHS to organize the four operating components of border security: Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). SBI has 3 main operating goals: improve border security, increase interior enforcement of immigration and customs laws, and implement a Temporary Worker Program (TWP).
The only commitment that DHS has currently made is to pay for a 28-mile pilot section of SBInet in the Tucson sector of the Arizona-Mexico border. The cost of this pilot section is estimated at $67 million. The value of Boeing’s three-year contract to build SBInet across both the northern and southern borders is estimated between $2 and $2.5 billion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBInet
Why go to the Government? Why go to the Government indeed. What is the purpose of a federal government if not to enforce federal laws? Congress passed a law requiring 800 some odd miles of fence be built. Now it's up to the Executive branch to execute that law. But noooo, the Executive wants to open the border even more, ignoring the law of the land.
What flooding? I don't think that there are flooding problems along the border. Last I heard nobody has proposed building the wall underground. Even at a 16 billion cost, that would be a bargain compared to the cost of illegal immigration.