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Originally Posted by altmman
"Congress won't fund the kind of wall Trump promised, and Mexico won't pay for it. But to save face, President Trump and congressional leaders will likely agree to a modest extension of the existing border fence,"
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Wednesday that border security was an important agenda item that he wanted to achieve "in whatever way is the most effective."
- Reuters
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Well, the Israeli wall costs $2m a kilometer (
http://stopthewall.org/the-wall), and that is probably a high estimate. So the US wall will probably cost somewhere between $4-8b, which is a fraction of what just the federal government spends on illegal alien services. Compare that to the cost of the latest US aircraft carrier, which costs $13b alone, or the USS Zumwalt, the US's latest destroyer, at $4.4b. I'd say it's relatively inexpensive, and will save us several hundred billions - maybe even trillions - over its effective lifetime.
No, it's a no-brainer: Build the Wall.
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Originally Posted by GspotProductions
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These parts will be patrolled with drones and keep nearby outposts with fast-moving vehicles to catch the fence hoppers.
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Originally Posted by klinton
lol, you are all so fucking funny and naive thats out of imagination.
imagine few thousands kilometres wall WITHOUT any possibility to build tunnels below it. lol, just lol.
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Under it? Sure, but not in numbers, and the cost of building a tunnel would make it's use so expensive that only very valuable contraband - narcotics - would ever go through it.
If you progressives are looking for a rebuttal, this one ain't it - walls work, as the Gaza, Berlin, and North Korean DMZ all prove irrefutably. The financial argument isn't going to work, either, since even the highest reasonable estimate - around $10b - is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount America wastes on social service, policing, and adjudicating the illegal alien population annually. Frankly, you guys are pretty much fucked, and will have to argue on pure emotion. Then again, that's what comprises most progressive "arguments" anyway, so I guess you're used to it
Praise Kek.