https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKCN1Q420NSo Trump was given $1.3 billion for 55 miles of wall or something, with the national emergency declaration his administration is claiming they can get around $8 billion for over 200 miles of wall.
Although the term "wall" has been debated a bit since it's a tall steel slat "fence" that allows for visibility through it and not a wall in the strictest sense of the term, it doesn't sound like anyone's going to have an easy time penetrating it.
Some questions I have:
(1) How much and which areas of the border will remain unsecured after this is done? 200 miles is certainly a lot and some areas already have walls/secure fencing, other areas are practically impassible naturally, yet the border is over 2,000 miles long. Is this the end or only the beginning?
(2) What about other sources of funding, such as civilians (that GoFundMe thing) or El Chapo's money that we keep hearing about? Apparently El Chapo has enough money for another 400 miles or something.
IMHO Trump is a really good man to go this far to fulfill his campaign promise. I don't get the impression that building the wall was going to be politically tenable, only green projects that never finish but pay out exorbitant amounts to the people who fail to deliver seem to get done these days when you're dealing with leftists. I know I'm getting tangential here but after California scrapped its high speed rail project, it had spent enough money to build dozens of high speed rail lines by the standards being used in other places or countries.
For example, China has a railway system that can take you to pretty much every major city in the country (albeit for sometimes more than a plane ticket would cost but that's another story) yet California can't build one line between two cities while spending multiple times as much money. How on earth was something like rebuilding every building in America (Green New Deal) going to work out if they can't build one railway line between two points? The wall was clearly never going to happen otherwise. Sad!
But also awesome that it's actually being done
Go Trump!