[Dane]

Land mines and a border wall are much easier than a picket line of soldiers

1500 miles at a minimum of $1,000,000 a mile, that's 1.5 billion for starters, without any maintenance costs. Also what about the Canadian border. They could catch a plane there and sneak over the northern border.

Just a question, would trying to make Mexico's economy better be an option to you?

[TheAngryClam]

1.5 billion is chump change- that's about $6 per person in the United States.

Keep in mind that Bush just decided to give ten times that ammount to Africans to deal with AIDS.

And no. Mexico needs to get its own house together.

[Edmund Burke]

Sounds like you have been living in D.C. for too long.

[jmc813]

1500 miles at a minimum of $1,000,000 a mile, that's 1.5 billion for starters, without any maintenance costs.

Bush doesn't seem to have a problem with spending hundreds of times that on unconstitutional $hit, so why not?

[Sabertooth]

1500 miles at a minimum of $1,000,000 a mile, that's 1.5 billion for starters, without any maintenance costs.

Closer to 2000 miles, and a million per is low by a lot. A wall along the border with Mexico would be bigger than the Great Wall of China, and would run from sea level to over 5000 feet inplaces where it would cross the Rocky Mountains. It would require roads along the wall, bases, and helipads. Then you'd have to staff it, which would require more than 100,000 troops.

I've crunched the numbers on a thread or two in the past, and a wall on the border would cost over $100 billion a year. It's definitely not the solution.