Homeland Security: Trump wall would cost "about" $21.6 billion, "up to" 3 years to complete

[Miles Archer]

PHOENIX — Building a wall or other barrier along the entire U.S.-Mexico border would cost about $21.6 billion and take up to 3½ years to complete, according to an internal Department of Homeland Secretary document.

The estimate is almost double the cost cited by President Trump — who made a border wall built at Mexico's expense his signature issue throughout the presidential race — as well as new DHS Secretary John Kelly, who commissioned the report.

The document containing the estimate, first reported by Reuters, lays out a three-phase plan about where construction could begin along the 1,250 miles of border without physical barriers and it details challenges to constructing a wall.

But the report also leaves questions unanswered, namely what the wall would look like.

http://www.wcnc.com/ext/news/nation-now/border-wall-would-cost-216-billion-homeland-security-report-says/275/nationnow/5b2rnyGA5UC2QWMeCYqM0A

[Portland_Anni]

1. Drumpf's wall is an exercise in extreme stupidity.

What enhances the human race is neighbors who get along and work together instead of hating, insulting and prosecuting each other.

The only wall that should be built is around Drumpf.

[Alice11111]

2. All to stop the net EMIGRATION to Mexico, and piss off &

insult our longterm passive allie. This, while 23 million or so lose their health care.

[chelsea0011]

3. And where is this wall going to be along the Rio Grande? Wall is nonsense. And any estimates are jus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande