Posted on 10/09/2015 5:24:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A roughly 2,000-mile fence on the Mexican border would cost tens of billions.
If Donald Trump were to build a wall along the United States' southern border, it would cost billions.
The U.S. border with Mexico is roughly 2,000 miles long and underlines four states from California to Texas. It is a massive stretch of land — the Berlin Wall spanned just 96 miles comparatively, and it cost about $25 million to build in 1961, or around $200 million with inflation.
Building a wall to keep out illegal immigrants is not a novel plan. About 670 miles of fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border was completed in accordance with the Bush administration's Secure Fence Act of 2006. That alone cost about $2.4 billion, for roughly one-third of the entire border and, according to migration experts, some of the easier and less costly areas to fence.
The Secure Fence Act called for 700 miles of fencing, with a double layer throughout, but much of the barrier isn't reinforced this way. Even before the fence reached its first stage of completion, some argued it was not being constructed properly....
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Israel built theirs for 1.5 million per mile, and it works.
How much will another 10 million illegal aliens cost taxpayers?
Build the damn wall.
The real cost is from not enforcing the law, the weight of that cost is sinking us.
What’s the cost if we don’t build it? Hundreds of billions.
Since 1989, how much money have we wasted in blowing up sand, rocks, and goat dung?
It would be worth every penny.
Tax the money Mexicans send home to help pay for it.
Not to worry. The Mexicans are going to pay for it.
Worth every penny.
Or trillions of dollars and thousands of deaths, rapes, molestations and other crimes...
Cheaper than giving them welfare, food stamps, phones, healthcare until hell freezes over.
What’s the cost to the US if it’s not built?
They’re...afraid!
What if we hire welfare receivers to build it?
What do we care? The Mexican Drug Cartel’s going to get the bill.
How much would it cost if we didn’t use union labor?
Did they conveniently forget about Trump saying that he would make Mexico pay for it?
Another third is the hot godforsaken AZ desert.
So we are looking at 667 miles of actual border fencing. We put a man on the moon (Did we?) so we can build this with no problems.
It won’t happen because of the following.
1) It would cost $8 trillion to build the wall
2) Homosexuals would be forced back in the closet
3) Women and minorities would be especially hard hit
4) All black Americans would be forced back into slavery
5) Snail darters and spotted owls would all die immediately
6) Cats and dogs would live together
7) Pearl Harbor would be bombed by the Germans again
8) Islamic sensibilities would be offended
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