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Trump: Border wall will be 35-45 feet tall
Washington Examiner ^ | 8/24/2016 | Anna Giaritelli

Posted on 08/25/2016 10:39:52 AM PDT by Elderberry

Donald Trump laid out new details in a pre-taped interview that aired Wednesday about the border wall he has called to be built on the U.S.-Mexico border.

"I think the height could be 35 to 45 feet. That's a good height. That's a good height. Anywhere in that neighborhood. Could be higher," Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity during the second part of an Austin, Texas, town hall.

The Republican nominee said he plans to install a fence along 1,000 miles of the 2,000-mile border because only that portion needs to be reinforced.

Trump said the current border allows drug cartels to bring drugs into the U.S. and take their money back out with them.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: trump; wall
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To: Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey

Winter is Coming


41 posted on 08/25/2016 11:13:52 AM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: showme_the_Glory

A 35-foot pole is a typical length used in cities to carry one or two crossarms.


42 posted on 08/25/2016 11:14:18 AM PDT by Elderberry
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To: showme_the_Glory

6 feet of a 35-foot pole would be buried, but if the pole were on a curve, 6.5 feet.


43 posted on 08/25/2016 11:15:34 AM PDT by Elderberry
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To: rey

I think Trump might ask Congress to defund the EPA and eliminate the agency entirely.


44 posted on 08/25/2016 11:15:46 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: rey; All
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45 posted on 08/25/2016 11:17:20 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: showme_the_Glory

I had a friend that referred to them generically as being “35 foot pole”


46 posted on 08/25/2016 11:17:22 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... We Frack for Peace)
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To: bigbob

Great idea!


47 posted on 08/25/2016 11:18:41 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: onona
Maybe use the Rovian weather machine to generate tornadoes and bolt lightening between the gaps


48 posted on 08/25/2016 11:18:53 AM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: Elderberry

“For another $362 million, the fence could be electrified.”

And for a few million more, we can use solar energy to keep it electrified so that it is carbon neutral. If liberals trash this idea, we can call them planet killers.

I’m willing to compromise on a hybrid wall/fence vs. all wall. I hate when my liberal tendencies come forward :-).


49 posted on 08/25/2016 11:18:59 AM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
don’t forget the ground sensors

Is that what we are calling land mines these days?

50 posted on 08/25/2016 11:19:37 AM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: Elderberry

Precast Concrete.


51 posted on 08/25/2016 11:20:18 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed FIVE* more People than Three Mile Island. *revised...)
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To: al baby

He’s not really going against Ted Cruz’s seat, is he?


52 posted on 08/25/2016 11:25:11 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Elderberry

I wonder what the plan is for 840 miles of California coastline.


53 posted on 08/25/2016 11:25:58 AM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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Most of the land in Texas on the border is privately owned.

And in Arizona the Tohono O’odham Tribe has 75 miles of border with Mexico and they don’t even allow Border Patrol to enter their land.

These lands will have to be purchased before a fence can be erected on these properties.

An Associated Press analysis of court documents last year found that when homeowners reject the feds' initial offers to buy their borderlands, the cost skyrockets. The Nature Conservancy balked at an offer of $114,000 for a fence on its land in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, and ultimately settled for $1 million. A developer in Brownsville, Texas, was offered $233,000 but ended up with $4.7 million three years later

54 posted on 08/25/2016 11:27:22 AM PDT by Elderberry
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To: Nero Germanicus
What country does it border? On the other hand, it would keep the sea lions out of Fisherman's Wharf.

-PJ

55 posted on 08/25/2016 11:28:58 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.From Foxnews, May 31,)
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To: Elderberry

Fine - build the border wall on the north side of these guys property. So they get to enjoy being on the south side of The Wall.


56 posted on 08/25/2016 11:30:14 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: rey

“EPA will shoot it down. It will never pass environmental review.”

It will be Trump’s EPA. Probably run by Sarah Palin.


57 posted on 08/25/2016 11:31:24 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (It appears as if Trump is our Yeltsin.)
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To: Red Steel

“Activate and reuse”

Two flights a day, 2500 each = 5000 a day.
300 days * 5000 = 15,000,000

That’s more than the 11,000,000 illegals said to be here.

Include $2000 for each family = 30 Billion.

Killing off the EPA and Department of Education to pay for it = 76 Billion

Savings by getting rid of illegals = 46 billion.


58 posted on 08/25/2016 11:37:33 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (It appears as if Trump is our Yeltsin.)
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To: Elderberry

A lot of that desert land is next to worthless. This is what 5th amendment eminent domain was meant to address.
It isn’t enough that we shipped a lot of our jobs south (Carrier air conditioning in my neighborhood, putting hundreds of Hoosiers out of work): remittances are Mehseeco’s biggest source of income.
Mexico can pay fair market value for the land, they can pay to build the damn wall 30 feet high, to keep out their people, and they get to pay to maintain it as well.

Despite what American’ts say.


59 posted on 08/25/2016 11:38:41 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice

30 feet high= 40 feet high


60 posted on 08/25/2016 11:39:23 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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