Trump’s Wall Costs $21.6 Billion; Illegal Immigration Costs $148.3 Billion Per Year

[Wry Catcher]

We've all heard the snowflake lies about the cost of the wall and the cost of illegal immigration. Here's a more credible examination of the facts.

Trump's Wall Costs $21.6 Billion; Illegal Immigration Costs $148.3 Billion Per Year—Do The Math | National Economics Editorial​

President Donald Trump announced that he will fulfill his campaign promise to build a nearly 2,000 mile long wall (not a fence) along America’s southern border with Mexico.

The idea is that a physical barrier will act as a low-cost deterrent, and will help stem the flow of illegal immigrants entering America via Mexico—the hope is that once an illegal alien (particularly a criminal migrant) is deported, they won’t return.

The plan is simple and time-tested—China’s Great Wall did it’s job, so did Hadrian’s Wall in Roman Britain—and yet it’s come under fire from the mainstream media.

They claim that the wall will be prohibitively expensive, that illegal immigrants contribute to America’s economy (so there’s no reason to deport them), and that the wall won’t work.

They’re factually wrong on all accounts—let’s look at the numbers.

How Much Will Trump’s Wall Cost? $21.6 Billion.
The first question we must address is very straightforward: how much would it cost to build a wall along the Mexican border?

We don’t know for sure (construction costs rarely align with initial estimates), but we have a few good estimates.

Senate leader Mitch McConnell said Congress estimates the wall will cost $15 billion at most—he said it would likely fall within a range of $12 to $15 billion.

However, according to more recent information acquired by Reuters, the border wall will cost $21.6 billion, and will take roughly 3.5 years to build. This is according to a document from the Department of Homeland Security.

It’s probably our best current estimate, and this article will proceed under using this cost assumption.

On the high end (which can’t be totally discounted, given the nature of construction projects), the left-wing advocacy group cum “newspaper” the Huffington Post said the wall would cost roughly $40 billion. Their evidence is based on a study done by MIT (although their assumptions about the size and building materials may be why the projection is so high).

Either way, the cost of the wall pales in comparison to the cost of illegal immigrants in America.

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Trump's about face and decision to shut down government by not signing the CR is all on Trump, just to appease his ego.

Blaming the Democrats is absurd, and only the biddable and partisan hacks believe this to be true. In fact no vote has been taken, and no one can predict how many members of The Congress would vote for the $5 billion black mail demand.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Mindlessly repeating your babble does nothing for you.

Are you saying that we should seall ALL our borders?

Sure sounds like it.

The wall is a SYMBOL. A very expensive inefficient symbol

The Third World is not stampeding across all our borders.


Walls work. If you lefties did not think the wall would not work, you would not be so afraid of it.

lousy right wing management has wars on crime, drugs, and terror they refuse to pay wartime tax rates for, and complain about their social results.

I'm willing to pay to deport all the illegals and build the Wall.


You should go home. YOu are not loyal to your fellow Americans.

Great. Pony up the ,money to deport 11 million people (or the 30 million you claim).

How's you bank account look?

Quite good actually. We exceeded our investment goals for the year.


And I'm happy to pay my share. It is exactly the type of joint sacrifice, joint gain that epitomizes the reason for taxes.

How did you exceed your investment goals for 2018? In one of my investment accounts, managed by professionals we lost $74 k (rounded down) between Jan. 2018 and Dec. 2018 in a balanced account.

I think you are full of shit. If you invested in bonds, large, mid and small cap stocks, foreign and domestic you could not have exceeded your goal - unless it was to lose money.

 

[Correll]

The Third World is not stampeding across all our borders.


Walls work. If you lefties did not think the wall would not work, you would not be so afraid of it.

lousy right wing management has wars on crime, drugs, and terror they refuse to pay wartime tax rates for, and complain about their social results.

I'm willing to pay to deport all the illegals and build the Wall.


You should go home. YOu are not loyal to your fellow Americans.

Great. Pony up the ,money to deport 11 million people (or the 30 million you claim).

How's you bank account look?

Quite good actually. We exceeded our investment goals for the year.


And I'm happy to pay my share. It is exactly the type of joint sacrifice, joint gain that epitomizes the reason for taxes.

How did you exceed your investment goals for 2018? In one of my investment accounts, managed by professionals we lost $74 k (rounded down) between Jan. 2018 and Dec. 2018 in a balanced account.

I think you are full of shit. If you invested in bonds, large, mid and small cap stocks, foreign and domestic you could not have exceeded your goal - unless it was to lose money.

What I meant was, we came up with the amount of money we wanted to invest, and then some. Our goal was to invest a significant amount of money.



We are aware that the markets are down, though we have not yet done our end of the year review.



You need to consider that your emotions, especially your hate of those that disagree with you, are really effecting your perceptions, and making you miss intended meanings, in favor of those that support your biases and prejudices.

 

[Wry Catcher]

lousy right wing management has wars on crime, drugs, and terror they refuse to pay wartime tax rates for, and complain about their social results.

I'm willing to pay to deport all the illegals and build the Wall.


You should go home. YOu are not loyal to your fellow Americans.

Great. Pony up the ,money to deport 11 million people (or the 30 million you claim).

How's you bank account look?

Quite good actually. We exceeded our investment goals for the year.


And I'm happy to pay my share. It is exactly the type of joint sacrifice, joint gain that epitomizes the reason for taxes.

How did you exceed your investment goals for 2018? In one of my investment accounts, managed by professionals we lost $74 k (rounded down) between Jan. 2018 and Dec. 2018 in a balanced account.

I think you are full of shit. If you invested in bonds, large, mid and small cap stocks, foreign and domestic you could not have exceeded your goal - unless it was to lose money.

What I meant was, we came up with the amount of money we wanted to invest, and then some. Our goal was to invest a significant amount of money.



We are aware that the markets are down, though we have not yet done our end of the year review.



You need to consider that your emotions, especially your hate of those that disagree with you, are really effecting your perceptions, and making you miss intended meanings, in favor of those that support your biases and prejudices.

Bullshit! Your "intended" meaning? You made a claim, definitively, and now claim you haven't done an and of year review. Even with that one day thousand point + raise, all three major markets ended the year in the Red.

The only way to have ended the year in the black, would be Real Estate Holdings, and even then the value was much less in most communities in '18 then in the previous half dozen years.

 

[danielpalos]

There is no express wall building power, right wingers. Why complain about less fortunate illegals?

 

[Lesh]

There is no express wall building power, right wingers. Why complain about less fortunate illegals?

Why do you carry on with that meaningless nonsense?

Did you notice that no one is responding?

 

[danielpalos]

There is no express wall building power, right wingers. Why complain about less fortunate illegals?

Why do you carry on with that meaningless nonsense?

Did you notice that no one is responding?

Where is the express wall building power? We have a general welfare clause not a general warfare clause.

 

[Correll]

I'm willing to pay to deport all the illegals and build the Wall.


You should go home. YOu are not loyal to your fellow Americans.

Great. Pony up the ,money to deport 11 million people (or the 30 million you claim).

How's you bank account look?

Quite good actually. We exceeded our investment goals for the year.


And I'm happy to pay my share. It is exactly the type of joint sacrifice, joint gain that epitomizes the reason for taxes.

How did you exceed your investment goals for 2018? In one of my investment accounts, managed by professionals we lost $74 k (rounded down) between Jan. 2018 and Dec. 2018 in a balanced account.

I think you are full of shit. If you invested in bonds, large, mid and small cap stocks, foreign and domestic you could not have exceeded your goal - unless it was to lose money.

What I meant was, we came up with the amount of money we wanted to invest, and then some. Our goal was to invest a significant amount of money.



We are aware that the markets are down, though we have not yet done our end of the year review.



You need to consider that your emotions, especially your hate of those that disagree with you, are really effecting your perceptions, and making you miss intended meanings, in favor of those that support your biases and prejudices.

Bullshit! Your "intended" meaning? You made a claim, definitively, and now claim you haven't done an and of year review. Even with that one day thousand point + raise, all three major markets ended the year in the Red.

The only way to have ended the year in the black, would be Real Estate Holdings, and even then the value was much less in most communities in '18 then in the previous half dozen years.

Dude. Please try to listen to what I am saying here, now.


People talk. Miscommunication is normal. I used a term, perhaps incorrectly. You did not receive the information I meant to convey.


Completely normal. In that limited example, the "Fault" was mine.


Now though, I have clarified my communication and you are holding on to your initial misunderstanding, in order to "gotcha" me.


That is not how real people talk.


Do you have Aspergers Syndrome? Or some similar diagnosis? Or are you just a hopeless partisan?


Either way, Dude. Try to improve.


Happy New Year.

 

[danielpalos]

We need Great Walls of America tax rates for our Great Walls, which should generate revenue from inception not centuries later.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Great. Pony up the ,money to deport 11 million people (or the 30 million you claim).

How's you bank account look?

Quite good actually. We exceeded our investment goals for the year.


And I'm happy to pay my share. It is exactly the type of joint sacrifice, joint gain that epitomizes the reason for taxes.

How did you exceed your investment goals for 2018? In one of my investment accounts, managed by professionals we lost $74 k (rounded down) between Jan. 2018 and Dec. 2018 in a balanced account.

I think you are full of shit. If you invested in bonds, large, mid and small cap stocks, foreign and domestic you could not have exceeded your goal - unless it was to lose money.

What I meant was, we came up with the amount of money we wanted to invest, and then some. Our goal was to invest a significant amount of money.



We are aware that the markets are down, though we have not yet done our end of the year review.



You need to consider that your emotions, especially your hate of those that disagree with you, are really effecting your perceptions, and making you miss intended meanings, in favor of those that support your biases and prejudices.

Bullshit! Your "intended" meaning? You made a claim, definitively, and now claim you haven't done an and of year review. Even with that one day thousand point + raise, all three major markets ended the year in the Red.

The only way to have ended the year in the black, would be Real Estate Holdings, and even then the value was much less in most communities in '18 then in the previous half dozen years.

Dude. Please try to listen to what I am saying here, now.


People talk. Miscommunication is normal. I used a term, perhaps incorrectly. You did not receive the information I meant to convey.


Completely normal. In that limited example, the "Fault" was mine.

aA


Now though, I have clarified my communication and you are holding on to your initial misunderstanding, in order to "gotcha" me.


That is not how real people talk.


Do you have Aspergers Syndrome? Or some similar diagnosis? Or are you just a hopeless partisan?


Either way, Dude. Try to improve.


Happy New Year.

I will accept your very weak Mea culpa. Let us both hope there is less chaos and thus a stable economy in the new year.

 

[Correll]

Quite good actually. We exceeded our investment goals for the year.


And I'm happy to pay my share. It is exactly the type of joint sacrifice, joint gain that epitomizes the reason for taxes.

How did you exceed your investment goals for 2018? In one of my investment accounts, managed by professionals we lost $74 k (rounded down) between Jan. 2018 and Dec. 2018 in a balanced account.

I think you are full of shit. If you invested in bonds, large, mid and small cap stocks, foreign and domestic you could not have exceeded your goal - unless it was to lose money.

What I meant was, we came up with the amount of money we wanted to invest, and then some. Our goal was to invest a significant amount of money.



We are aware that the markets are down, though we have not yet done our end of the year review.



You need to consider that your emotions, especially your hate of those that disagree with you, are really effecting your perceptions, and making you miss intended meanings, in favor of those that support your biases and prejudices.

Bullshit! Your "intended" meaning? You made a claim, definitively, and now claim you haven't done an and of year review. Even with that one day thousand point + raise, all three major markets ended the year in the Red.

The only way to have ended the year in the black, would be Real Estate Holdings, and even then the value was much less in most communities in '18 then in the previous half dozen years.

Dude. Please try to listen to what I am saying here, now.


People talk. Miscommunication is normal. I used a term, perhaps incorrectly. You did not receive the information I meant to convey.


Completely normal. In that limited example, the "Fault" was mine.

aA


Now though, I have clarified my communication and you are holding on to your initial misunderstanding, in order to "gotcha" me.


That is not how real people talk.


Do you have Aspergers Syndrome? Or some similar diagnosis? Or are you just a hopeless partisan?


Either way, Dude. Try to improve.


Happy New Year.

I will accept your very weak Mea culpa. Let us both hope there is less chaos and thus a stable economy in the new year.

Do you remember me ever misunderstanding YOU?

 

[basquebromance]

not to sound like Dan Quayle, my friends, but we need to focus our mind on the future...by looking back.

walls have been around for 4,000 years. they worked then. they'll work now.

 

[danielpalos]

it won't solve the problem.

and, we don't have an immigration clause, it is a naturalization clause.

 

[P@triot]

It’s funny - we are told by the Dumbocrats that walls don’t work, that walls are “immoral”, and that illegals should be welcomed under any circumstances. And yet, oddly, when illegals went to Nancy Pelosi’s residence, not only were there many walls, but Nancy immediately panicked, called 911, and demanded that law enforcement remove the very same illegal aliens that she states should be welcomed, fed, and sheltered by all of us!

The controversial journalist even went to check if the Pelosis had locked their front door, since, according to a sarcastic Loomer, "only bigots lock their doors. Come on, you can't say everyone is welcome here and then lock your door," said Loomer, upon finding the doors locked. "You're killing us, Nancy! You're killing us!" Police officers were soon called to the property and asked for identification from the illegals and Loomer and company. "I was told IDs were racist," Loomer repeatedly tells the officers. "I'm so confused."

Typical do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do Dumbocrat! As Andrew Wilkow always says, “socialism is for the people - not the socialist”.

WATCH: Laura Loomer Brings Illegal Immigrants To Nancy Pelosi's Home. Pelosi Has Police Remove Them.

 

[P@triot]

it won't solve the problem.

Sure it will. You know it too. Which is exactly why you’re so against it.

 

[danielpalos]

it won't solve the problem.

Sure it will. You know it too. Which is exactly why you’re so against it.

just a waste of money. we should be generating revenue like good national capitalists.

 

[basquebromance]

Ann Coulter: Trump is the worst negotiator God ever created!

 

[P@triot]

it won't solve the problem.

Sure it will. You know it too. Which is exactly why you’re so against it.

just a waste of money. we should be generating revenue like good national capitalists.

Capitalism is an economic system. We are discussing political and legal systems. Only the left doesn’t get it.

 

[danielpalos]

it won't solve the problem.

Sure it will. You know it too. Which is exactly why you’re so against it.

just a waste of money. we should be generating revenue like good national capitalists.

Capitalism is an economic system. We are discussing political and legal systems. Only the left doesn’t get it.

lol. nice story, national socialists are good at telling stories.

 

[P@triot]

Indisputable proof that the left is lying (as always)...

‘They don’t even try’: Hungary’s new border fence called ‘spectacular success’