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U.S. Tax Payers to Front Initial Cost on Trump's Wall, Now Projected to Cost $21.6 Billion


President Donald Trump’s “wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal report seen by Reuters on Thursday.

The report’s estimated price-tag is much higher than a $12-billion figure cited by Trump in his campaign and estimates as high as $15 billion from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The report is expected to be presented to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly in coming days, although the administration will not necessarily take actions it recommends.

The plan lays out what it would take to seal the border in three phases of construction of fences and walls covering just over 1,250 miles by the end of 2020.

With 654 miles of the border already fortified, the new construction would extend almost the length of the entire border.

Many cost estimates and timelines have been floated since Trump campaigned on the promise of building a wall. The report seen by Reuters is the work of a group commissioned by Kelly as a final step before moving forward with requesting U.S. taxpayer funds from Congress and getting started on construction.

A DHS spokeswoman said the department does "not comment on or confirm the potential existence of pre-decisional, deliberative documents."

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-border-wall-immigration-mexico-mexico-border-554867



 
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WVMade said:
U.S. Tax Payers to Front Initial Cost on Trump's Wall, Now Projected to Cost $21.6 Billion


President Donald Trump’s “wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal report seen by Reuters on Thursday.

The report’s estimated price-tag is much higher than a $12-billion figure cited by Trump in his campaign and estimates as high as $15 billion from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The report is expected to be presented to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly in coming days, although the administration will not necessarily take actions it recommends.

The plan lays out what it would take to seal the border in three phases of construction of fences and walls covering just over 1,250 miles by the end of 2020.

With 654 miles of the border already fortified, the new construction would extend almost the length of the entire border.

Many cost estimates and timelines have been floated since Trump campaigned on the promise of building a wall. The report seen by Reuters is the work of a group commissioned by Kelly as a final step before moving forward with requesting U.S. taxpayer funds from Congress and getting started on construction.

A DHS spokeswoman said the department does "not comment on or confirm the potential existence of pre-decisional, deliberative documents."

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-border-wall-immigration-mexico-mexico-border-554867
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If they actually build it, expect it to double again.
 
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WVMade said:
U.S. Tax Payers to Front Initial Cost on Trump's Wall, Now Projected to Cost $21.6 Billion


President Donald Trump’s “wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal report seen by Reuters on Thursday.

The report’s estimated price-tag is much higher than a $12-billion figure cited by Trump in his campaign and estimates as high as $15 billion from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The report is expected to be presented to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly in coming days, although the administration will not necessarily take actions it recommends.

The plan lays out what it would take to seal the border in three phases of construction of fences and walls covering just over 1,250 miles by the end of 2020.

With 654 miles of the border already fortified, the new construction would extend almost the length of the entire border.

Many cost estimates and timelines have been floated since Trump campaigned on the promise of building a wall. The report seen by Reuters is the work of a group commissioned by Kelly as a final step before moving forward with requesting U.S. taxpayer funds from Congress and getting started on construction.

A DHS spokeswoman said the department does "not comment on or confirm the potential existence of pre-decisional, deliberative documents."

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-border-wall-immigration-mexico-mexico-border-554867
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I thought you meant the price of tomatoes would double in cost overnight! Whew, I feel much better now. [winking]
 
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moe said:
No need for that, DJT said he'd put those miners back to work.
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I'm pretty sure that's what he meant all along. No joke. One of the first things Donnie said when he "came out" was that Americans make too much money and we have to compete with China and Mexico.
 
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WVex-pat in GA said:
I thought you meant the price of tomatoes would double in cost overnight! Whew, I feel much better now. [winking]
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Don't worry.....I used to do business in the Central Valley......the Mexicans do mostly lettuce,strawberries and sometimes garlic.
 
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bamaEER said:
They'll pay for it by charging us more for avocados.
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Or we could not except the avocados and let them rot. Just spitballin' here. They can keep the prices down or ship the maters and and cados oversea. Better yet they could send them to Central America in exchange for cocaine we aren't letting into the Country. America First.
 
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bornaneer said:
Don't worry.....I used to do business in the Central Valley......the Mexicans do mostly lettuce,strawberries and sometimes garlic.
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When I worked in Greeley, CO, almost all the field workers I saw were Mexican. Lots of non-potato root veggies there - beets, onions, sugar beets, might have been some carrots too. I worked construction then, and outside of the owners and one site foreman, I was the only non-Mexican who struck with the job.
 
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mule_eer said:
When I worked in Greeley, CO, almost all the field workers I saw were Mexican. Lots of non-potato root veggies there - beets, onions, sugar beets, might have been some carrots too. I worked construction then, and outside of the owners and one site foreman, I was the only non-Mexican who struck with the job.
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It was meant as humor....The Mexicans do about 98% of all the work in the Central Valley. The same holds true for the orange groves in Florida. The meat processing plants around the country are mainly staffed by Mexicans......one of them I did business with in Hyrum UT was raided and shut down for several days because they had several undocumented working for them.
 
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