Trumps wall plan leaked

ā€˜Billionsā€™ Available for Trump's Wall...
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Trumpā€™s Wall Will ā€˜Get Done,ā€™ and Thereā€™s ā€˜Billionsā€™ Available for It
November 11, 2016 ā€“ Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) appeared on ā€œFox & Friendsā€ on Friday morning to discuss President-elect Donald Trumpā€™s campaign promise to ā€œbuild a wall along the southern border.ā€
Gohmert assured host Steve Doocy that the wall ā€œwill get done,ā€ arguing that in the past ā€œthereā€™s been billions of dollars appropriated for a virtual wall,ā€ but ā€œJanet Napolitano head of Homeland Security, she just said, you know what, I donā€™t want to do that, and we let her get away with disobeying the law.ā€

Doocy asked Gohmert if he thought Trump would run into a wall with Congress in delivering on his promise to build a wall. ā€œHe may have trouble with some,ā€ Gohmert replied, ā€œbut Iā€™ve been thrilled the way our Republican leadership this week has just gotten all excited about Trump. You know, as my friend Paul Ryan said, gee he was hearing voices none of the rest of us heard. Well actually, Steve, some of us were hearing those voices, and we were telling them, but apparently they werenā€™t listening.

ā€œThereā€™s been billions of dollars appropriated for a virtual wall,ā€ Gohmert said, ā€œJanet Napolitano, head of Homeland Security, she just said, you know what, I donā€™t want to do that, and we let her get away with disobeying the law.ā€ ā€œIt will be awesome to have a president and a cabinet that will follow the law,ā€ Gohmert said.

Gohmert added that ā€œanother big bunch of money would be for all of the illegals weā€™ve been in-processing. Weā€™ll be able to spend that more on the wall than we are on in-processing, but thereā€™s billions of dollars. We couldnā€™t find out where they are. He can get started when he has a good Homeland Security secretary. ā€œItā€™s amazing what you can get Congress to do when you lead and push them in the right direction,ā€ Gohmert concluded. ā€œActually, you know we had appropriated money during the Bush administration that didnā€™t get spent for the wall. So yeah, itā€™s going to be great to have somebody thatā€™s actually following the law.ā€

Gohmert: Trumpā€™s Wall Will ā€˜Get Done,ā€™ and Thereā€™s ā€˜Billionsā€™ Available for It
 
Granny says, "Dat's okay - Mexico gonna pay fer it...
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Trump border 'wall' to cost $21.6 billion, take 3.5 years to build: internal report
Thu Feb 9, 2017 | President Donald Trumpā€™s ā€œwallā€ along the U.S.-Mexico border would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal report seen by Reuters on Thursday.
The reportā€™s estimated price-tag is much higher than a $12-billion figure cited by Trump in his campaign and estimates as high as $15 billion from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The report is expected to be presented to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly in coming days, although the administration will not necessarily take actions it recommends. The plan lays out what it would take to seal the border in three phases of construction of fences and walls covering just over 1,250 miles (2,000 km) by the end of 2020.

With 654 miles (1,046 km) of the border already fortified, the new construction would extend almost the length of the entire border. Many cost estimates and timelines have been floated since Trump campaigned on the promise of building a wall. The report seen by Reuters is the work of a group commissioned by Kelly as a final step before moving forward with requesting U.S. taxpayer funds from Congress and getting started on construction. A DHS spokeswoman said the department does "not comment on or confirm the potential existence of pre-decisional, deliberative documents." A White House spokeswoman said it would be ā€œprematureā€ to comment on a report that has not officially been presented to the president.

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Three men from India jump the fence from Mexico and give themselves up to U.S. border patrol agents in Calexico, California​

The report said the first phase would be the smallest, targeting sections covering 26 miles (42 km) near San Diego, California; El Paso, Texas; and in Texas's Rio Grande Valley. The report assumes DHS would get funding from Congress by April or May, giving the department sufficient time to secure contractors and begin construction by September. Trump has said Congress should fund the wall upfront, but that Mexico will reimburse U.S. taxpayers. Mexico has said it will not pay. Several U.S. congressional delegations are visiting the border this month to assess funding needs, according to several people familiar with the travel plans.

The report shows the U.S. government has begun seeking waivers to address environmental laws on building in some areas. It also shows the government has begun working with existing contractors and planning steel purchases for the project. Trump told law enforcement officials on Wednesday, "The wall is getting designed right now." The report accounted for the time and cost of acquiring private land, one reason for its steep price increase compared to estimates from Trump and members of Congress.

Bernstein Research, an investment research group that tracks material costs, has said that uncertainties around the project could drive its cost up to as much as $25 billion. The second phase of construction proposed in the report would cover 151 miles (242 km) of border in and around the Rio Grande Valley; Laredo, Texas; Tucson, Arizona; El Paso, Texas and Big Bend, Texas. The third phase would cover an unspecified 1,080 miles (1,728 km), essentially sealing off the entire U.S.-Mexico border.

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