bmac32 wrote:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/us-mexico-border-wall-being-built-slowly/#slide-1
As your article points out, this is all replacement and not new wall.
Price is atrocious.. the reason I oppose the wall. but even at millions of dollars per mile, it seem to pale at the trillions that have been added to our debt in this time of great economic progress..
A time when lowering that deficit and the debt would be a normal thing to do..
One thing I did expect with the orange one elected was at least an attempt at controlling the national dept. which is going to bring us near a match with the USSR of old when they ceased to exist..
and then what will we do?
A small part from you linked article as it is also a concern of mine as well.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/us-mexico-border-wall-being-built-slowly/#slide-1Neb., is putting up a 30-foot high “bollard-style wall” to replace 2.25 miles of wall built in the 1990s out of recycled scraps of metal and steel plates. (The bollard style uses bars, so that border patrol officers can see through to the other side.)
When construction began, the agency stated, “Although the existing wall has proven effective at deterring unlawful cross border activity, smuggling organizations damaged and breached this outdated version of a border wall several hundred times during the last two years, resulting in costly repairs.” When construction began, David Kim, assistant chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol’s El Centro sector, emphasized to local media that the construction was not tied to any particular immigration debate in Washington. It was, he said, a “local tactical infrastructure project that was planned for quite some time.”
This wall project, estimated to cost about $18 million, is approaching completion, with roughly 1.8 miles — 1,171 panels – completed as of this week.
In April, CBP began the second section near Santa Theresa, N.M., which is near the Texas–New Mexico state line. A 20-mile section of existing vehicle barrier that begins just west of the Santa Teresa Port of Entry and extending westward will be replaced with an 18- to 30-foot-high bollard-style wall. About 5.3 miles, or 3,851 panels, have been completed.
As the name implies, a vehicle fence is not designed to keep people out. It comes in two forms: “Normandy fences” that are metal posts resembling jacks or large X’s, cabled together; or rows of vertical metal posts, tall enough and close enough together to make it impossible to drive a car through them.
The project is expected to cost approximately $73.3 million and will take roughly a year to complete.
The total length of the U.S.–Mexico border is 1,954 miles; as of August 2017, 705 miles have at least one of four kinds of barriers.