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JonLP24

(29,322 posts) Mon Jan 20, 2020, 04:12 AM Jan 2020

$11 Billion And Counting: Trump's Border Wall Would Be The World's Most Costly

The pricetag for President Trump's border wall has topped $11 billion — or nearly $20 million a mile — to become the most expensive wall of its kind anywhere in the world.

In a status report last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which is overseeing wall construction, reported that $11 billion has been identified since Trump took office to construct 576 miles of a new "border wall system."

And the Trump administration is on the hunt for funding to build even more. The Department of Homeland Security has asked the Defense Department to come up with money for 270 additional miles of border wall that DHS says is needed to block drug smuggling routes on federal land. The Pentagon is studying the request, which did not come with a dollar figure.

If the Trump administration completes all of the wall projects it has set in motion, three-quarters of the U.S. southern border would be walled off from Mexico. The government inherited about 650 miles of border structures erected under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797319968/-11-billion-and-counting-trumps-border-wall-would-be-the-world-s-most-costly

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$11 Billion And Counting: Trump's Border Wall Would Be The World's Most Costly (Original Post) JonLP24 Jan 2020 OP

A colossal waste of taxpayer money to promote Xenophobia. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2020 #1

Walls fail. KentuckyWoman Jan 2020 #2

I agree with this as well as post #1 JonLP24 Jan 2020 #4

$20 shovel, $100 ladder or $1,000 boat, safeinOhio Jan 2020 #3

or a $100 reciprocating saw. :) Sloumeau Jan 2020 #8

Money laundering front Nature Man Jan 2020 #5

Evraz - among others. KentuckyWoman Jan 2020 #6

Bingo!!!!! secondwind Jan 2020 #7

I thought that was the whole point. Turbineguy Jan 2020 #9

Follow the money duforsure Jan 2020 #10

It could have been a lot more expensive, My Pet Orangutan Jan 2020 #11

trying to visualize the Vultures vomit all over that thing. SleeplessinSoCal Jan 2020 #12

i havent watched any of the debates.. was the wall ever brought up? samnsara Jan 2020 #13

OAITW r.2.0

(24,528 posts)

1. A colossal waste of taxpayer money to promote Xenophobia.

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 04:23 AM

Jan 2020

We have to rethink the future. We need immigrant labor to our build walls that protect our population/cultural centers. Unless you think Putin/Trump is the answer.

Lucky for us, it won.t take a lot of money to dismantle this boondoggle.

KentuckyWoman

(6,688 posts)

2. Walls fail.

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 04:33 AM

Jan 2020

The walls in China ultimately failed.
The Berlin Wall failed.
The Trump Wall will fail too. Eventually.

Migration is the norm for humans. We can try to stop it, but we will not succeed.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)

4. I agree with this as well as post #1

Reply to KentuckyWoman (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 04:37 AM

Jan 2020

It is a monument to Xenophobia since it actually doesn't solve the problems Trump claims that it does.

SEASON 2020: EPISODE 4
FRONTLINE investigates how El Paso, Texas became the Trump administration’s immigration policy testing ground, and then the target of a white supremacist. Interviews with current and former officials, Border Patrol agents, advocates and migrants tell the inside story from the epicenter of the border crisis. Premiering at a special time — 10:30/9:30c — on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020 (check local PBS listings).
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/targeting-el-paso/

At the end of that documentary a Republican mayor who was invited into a car ride with Trump to the airport used the opportunity to press him for comprehensive immigration reform because he actually wants to solve the problem then Trump called him a RINO. I'm not kidding.

safeinOhio

(32,706 posts)

3. $20 shovel, $100 ladder or $1,000 boat,

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 04:33 AM

Jan 2020

trump $11 billion wall.

Sloumeau

(2,657 posts)

8. or a $100 reciprocating saw. :)

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 06:08 AM

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Nature Man

(869 posts)

5. Money laundering front

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 04:49 AM

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KentuckyWoman

(6,688 posts)

6. Evraz - among others.

Reply to Nature Man (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 04:56 AM

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secondwind

(16,903 posts)

7. Bingo!!!!!

Reply to Nature Man (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 05:01 AM

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Turbineguy

(37,359 posts)

9. I thought that was the whole point.

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 06:11 AM

Jan 2020

Take money away from where it's needed, give half to the rich, waste it elsewhere.

"I spent half on wine, women and song and the rest I spent foolishly"

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

10. Follow the money

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2020, 06:15 AM

Jan 2020

He's likely getting bribes from it making only those that'll help funnel money into his pockets gets contracts,then using PAC's to hide it and funnel it into his and others pockets . We're very likely paying these bribes with inflated numbers to cover his cut. That's the same model putin in russia has used. Only the corrupt make money under putin. Probably what they were trying to do with the Ukraine gas deal .