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