Why not pay Me icon for their land AND build the damn wall on Me icon side of the border, NO WACKO environmentalists, NO permits, NO frigging judges interfering AND Mexico needs the money!!!!
DAMN spellcheck Me icon= Mexico
“Why not... build the damn wall on Mexican side of the border?”
In Texas where the river is the border, and it keeps shifting its course and flooding periodically, we would end up with a complicated mess of Mexican property, sovereignty and humanitarian issues (e.g Grandma’s hut on the wrong side of the barrier).
But more pertinently, Congress has already granted the Administration the authority to waive dozens of time consuming environmental and other laws, and judges have already ruled on the expected challenges. It is not a constraint.
We can already control everything on our side (a new Mexican President might decide to demolish the wall, after the check cleared).