Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. $113 Billion a Year, Study Finds (SEAL THE DARN BORDER, NOW!)

Another useful issue on the assembly of the costs to maintain (survive?, endure?) the illegal aliens is to offset that against the supposed Herculean cost of a heavy duty border fence or wall system.

If we say that the 1900 miles has 85% that needs to be hardened or improved that works out to 8494 each 1,000 foot runs of fence of wall. Highway sound barricade walls run from $75 to 150 per lineal foot as I recall so lets call this wall and electronic monitoring and support features a $275.00/ per lineal foot wall and fence system. Let's also assume that 20% of the footage has private property impacted on our side of the border and an easement would have to paid for at a 60” depth for a total of 2,340 acres at $1,000 per acre for platting and easement purchases.

Lastly lets assume that half or the 1,000 foot runs would not be accessible from roads and/or utilities and would take a $50,000.00 average utility extension/improvement to access and/or power construction or maintenance of the facility at a rate of one improved access per each 6 1,000 foot runs of fence.. That's 707 utility and access improvements.

We would have contingent costs for unplanned and undesigned issues of about 10% on a job like this.

Adding to those raw costs would be soft costs of 25% for engineering, legal, and general conditions to construction for this fence or wall system.

That brings the hard and soft costs on this to 3.263 billion on which I would like to have overhead of 8% and fee of 8% for executing designing and constructing this project bringing the grand total to 3.8 billion based upon sensible citizenry analysis.

This basically proves that with employment interdiction and the cessation of returns at the numbers seen that if the annual costs fall at 15% per year this fence would pay for itself in four years based upon some of the figures above and actually begin to reduce state and federal deficits thereafter.

If anyone would care to get this approved I will be happy to supply an e-mail address to recieve the executed contract based upon this Scope of Work.

It is estimated that Latin Americans residing in the United States send $30 billion dollars to their native countries.

It bears opening up the list of those who benefit from illegals:
Employers who are willing to hire illegals
Schools trying to obtain more money by head count (usually school lunch programs)
Latin American countries The illegals themselves

I am sure we can add to the list. The point is how do we turn their assets into liabilities?

As we’ve seen from the ridiculous levels of pork barrel spending, this country has the wallet, but not the will to build the wall.

The only thing I didn’t understand about your calculation is this: if the annual costs fall at 15% per year this fence would pay for itself in four years.

The annual costs of immigration are $113B, so a 15% decline in the first year alone would be a savings of $16 billion. This would more than cover your proposed contract costs including your hefty $400 million proposed profit on this job :-).

I had neglected to say that I was allowing for a 3.5 year completion including design. That would allow for the first half year savings at the fifteen percent per annum rate to be the point at which savings started to outweight expenditures. The fee is negotiable through the typical government BAFO process, but when you are talking about projects that are in excess of a billion and include design and execution risks of this level, I think that a fee of 8% against a Home Office and field overhead of a similar magnitude is within the anticipated range and not untypical.

If the project was 100 million, then you start to get down into economical fee ranges of 3 to 6%. At this project size you either have to work with the dozen firms that can do a project like this or add two years and another twenty percent for screw ups and escalation of cost for the governnent to parcel it out in thirty contracts averaging about 100 million each with another forty contracts for small disadvantaged, HUBZone, 8A and other groups included by FAR once your begin to parcel it up.

I think that you could possibly get a better job if you divided it in two contracts and gave a 50 million dollar bonus to the firm that completes their construction (with inspections) first.

I would also be happy to just serve as a consultant for one-half of one percent with a liability limitation to claims in excess of my General Comprehensive Liability and exclusive of E & O claims to be covered by designers naming me as an additional insured. If awarded, I guanandamn-tee you we would never have to hold another quarterly fundraiser.

Additionally, by typo, I included double quote marks for the 60 Foot width of the easement when it should have read 60’.

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