21.6 billion

oregonblitzkrieg

Edwin_Bambino said:

The wall is fucking stupid. Yea let's stop all the people who come in and do all the shitty jobs we don't want to do from coming. Smart. Plus it won't work.

Teenagers need jobs. They can pick the blueberries and strawberries.

2001400ex

oregonblitzkrieg said:

AZDuck said:

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. This wall



worked great! Just ask the Manchu dynasty who went through it and conquered the Ming Dynasty.

Walked part of that wall last year outside of Beijing. Steep steps if you trip and fall you are dead.

Too bad natural selection failed in this instance.

oregonblitzkrieg

2001400ex said:

oregonblitzkrieg said:

AZDuck said:

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. This wall



worked great! Just ask the Manchu dynasty who went through it and conquered the Ming Dynasty.

Walked part of that wall last year outside of Beijing. Steep steps if you trip and fall you are dead.

Too bad natural selection failed in this instance.

Your insults are so scathing and hurtful.

doogie

Admit it. You've already looked at vacation dates to visit.

Sledog

CirrhosisDawg said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

What's the cost of ill eagles per year in California alone? Schools, social services, hospital visits etc.? I'll bet it's in the billions.

How much would you bet?

it was 5 billion a year about 10 years ago just for Kali. Much worse now.

Sledog

Edwin_Bambino said:

The wall is fucking stupid. Yea let's stop all the people who come in and do all the shitty jobs we don't want to do from coming. Smart. Plus it won't work.

Funny they only do that work when there's a large number of them and they take the job from someone else because they'll work for less. Drop by Idaho and other northern states.

Sledog

Hillary misplaced 6 billion while sec state would have been a nice down payment on the wall.

2001400ex

Sledog said:

Hillary misplaced 6 billion while sec state would have been a nice down payment on the wall.

Sledog

2001400ex said:

Sledog said:

Hillary misplaced 6 billion while sec state would have been a nice down payment on the wall.

Whew right again!

Fire_Marshall_Bill

dhdawg said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

What's the cost of ill eagles per year in California alone? Schools, social services, hospital visits etc.? I'll bet it's in the billions.

And a wall will do what to address that? Net immigration is 0 right now

It's way down. Where did you get your figures though? I don't know about zero.

It will go way up to 1985-2008 levels very quickly though if when the Messican economy toilets.

Doog_de_Jour

Most of the discussion I see surrounding the construction of the US-Mexico border wall is around the cost, but I don't see as much discussion RE: the amount of time it will take.

Even if the President were to secure the funds, a project of that magnitude (the border is about 2,000 miles in length) would take a long time. (I seen estimates a short as the OP's article of 3.5 years, to as long as 16 years.) I don't know if those time figures also include the process of acquiring the some of the privately held land through eminent domain (which would require court orders).

I bring this up because a lot can change during that time frame, so I'm skeptical that it will be completed. I'd much rather Trump use his building background on infrastructure projects like dams, railways, highways, etc. (not that those are small tasks either, but I'm sure he'd get a lot more bipartisan support for them).