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underpants

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1. I'll just go with the time element

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 03:54 PM

Jan 2019

If it’s such a crisis what would a wall that will take years to build do to fix said crisis?

When I say “years” I mean from planning, surveying, procurement (bids), to the needed infrastructure for the equipment to build the wall.

$20-24 Million per mile are the estimates I’ve read.

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