First on CNN: Border wall ask: $1 billion for 62 miles
Source: CNN
First on CNN: Border wall ask: $1 billion for 62 miles
Updated 5:31 PM ET, Mon March 27, 2017
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The request would include only 48 miles of new wall
The documents also claim that Trump's executive orders are already upping arrests
Washington (CNN)The Trump administration wants the first $1 billion of border wall funding to cover 62 miles -- including replacing some existing fencing along the southern border.
The $999 million requested by the White House in its budget supplement for just defense and border security spending would cover just 48 miles of new wall, according to justification documents from the Department of Homeland Security obtained by CNN.
The documents describe exactly where the administration hopes to put its first installment of the border wall, as it described its modest 2017 funding ask.
The money will fund 14 miles of new border wall in San Diego, 28 miles of new levee wall barriers and six miles of new border wall in the Rio Grande Valley region and 14 miles of replacement fencing in San Diego. The fencing would likely include concrete elements, a source familiar with the plans told CNN. ........................
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/politics/trump-border-wall-cost-distance/index.html
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Paul Ryan
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vkkv
(3,384 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)So anybody could just walk around it I suppose?
Brilliant idea there tRumpters!
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)What a bargain.
Yet somehow we can't afford meals on wheels.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)There is mountainous terrain and quite a bit of desert along the path of the Trump Wall.
And we can't afford any other social program, apparently.
tenorly
(2,037 posts)Girard442
(6,084 posts)dchill
(38,532 posts)I'm sure he learned that the hard way.
I will use that ...
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 27, 2017, 10:57 PM - Edit history (1)
Anyone who still thinks that $12 billion estimate is accurate is an idiot.
Chakaconcarne
(2,462 posts)because the process will become more efficient.
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)Gump wants to start construction in populated areas. Areas with the infrastructure in place to make the job MORE efficient, not less.
One he starts building 30 foot walls in unpopulated desert, the logistics become more challenging, not less. Not exactly a recipe for reduced costs.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)to build that wall in the Rio Grande! LOL!
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)Anytime a Republican squawks about being labeled 'stupid',
just point them at their idiotic wall
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)as to the poor and middle class can pay for it......
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)The idea of a wall is one of ignorance and childishness.
tinrobot
(10,916 posts)doc03
(35,367 posts)have to come up with about $32 billion.
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)Because as we all know, nobody defines "under budget and ahead of schedule" like the Republican Party.
doc03
(35,367 posts)bridges built or how many people could go to college on that.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Just wait until Big Bend.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)doc03
(35,367 posts)can get in a boat in Canada and be in Cleveland in 2 or 3 hours.
BumRushDaShow
(129,458 posts)notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Of illegal immigrants. They just over stay their visa.
BumRushDaShow
(129,458 posts)which few other than west coasters are aware of. And it is notable in British Columbia (and the adjoining PNW as I stunningly discovered).
CanonRay
(14,113 posts)Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)BuddyCa
(99 posts)the GOP is laughing at them
elmac
(4,642 posts)so it must be a GOP project.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)no-bid contract for Haliburtion~Chaney Construction like the last time the GOP did this little wall song and Dance!
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)"President Trumps intention to cut Coast Guard funding lays in direct contradiction to his promise to enhance the security of our borders. Among its many duties, the Coast Guard is the primary border patrol operation on two oceans and the Gulf of Mexico. The perimeters formed by our seacoasts far exceed the length of our land borders.
Hopefully the three- and four-star generals who now serve as director of homeland security, national security advisor and secretary of defense are working to convince President Trump that the Coast Guard is a critical asset that needs to be strengthened, not weakened.
The successes of the Coast Guard and the Navy are what caused the movement of drugs into the United States to start coming through Mexico. Drug cartels have three operational domains land, sea, and air. Originally, Columbian drug lords were moving their cargoes over water while losses due to American interdiction were acceptable, especially considering the profits made from the overwhelmingly successful runs.
Then, the exceptional skills and advanced technology of our water-borne forces were implemented. To stay in business, the Colombians were required to develop a different means of transport. Mexican gangs were hired to serve as overland transport mules.
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Tunneling aside, if the land border becomes too formidable, the cartels will look to alternative transport means. Like water, illegal border traffic always seeks the path of least resistance. It is ironic that by reducing the effectiveness of the Coast Guard, President Trump is offering this domain as the cartels path of least resistance.
Moving beyond the drug transport issue, we still have the illegal alien situation. Coming across the land border is already dangerous enough for migrants. Reducing national security on the high seas is going to offer a boom to the water-borne underworld. "
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Col. (Ret.) Wes Martin served as the first senior antiterrorism officer for all coalition forces in Iraq.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)$3000*5200 is a bit under 16 million.
Now time 62 miles is $992 million
So, this stupid wall costs $3000 a foot???
What a boondoggle!
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)And any bets on it coming in anywhere near budget?
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)Sorry a little late to this. Didn't notice you had replied in "my posts".
EarthFirst
(2,904 posts)Yet we sure as fu*k have $1 billion for a *partial* wall!
TEB
(12,894 posts)My golden retriever and chocolate lab love to mark the fence in backyard the coyotes will be happy
BHDem53
(1,061 posts)can fund it himself like he did his campaign.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)would be expressed in Carl Sagan numbers.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)anglesphere
(64 posts)Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Oh sure Donnie,that entire wall that BTW Mexico is SUPPOSED to be paying for will only cost 12 billion.