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• The U.S. government has spent $12.2 billion on border barrier construction since 2007, almost entirely
along the Southwest border.
• The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service (CBP) oversaw construction of several hundred miles of barriers along the Southwest border between 2005 and 2011. In subsequent years, however, Department of Homeland Security largely stopped deploying additional fencing and shifted its enforcement strategy to one that places less emphasis on physical barriers.
• In his first two budget proposals to Congress, President Trump requested over $3 billion for “Border Wall Construction” along the Southwest border.
• Congress has been unwilling to fully support the president’s border wall plan. Instead, they have opted to split the difference – allocating significantly higher funding for physical barriers along the Southwest border but refusing to specifically fund the president’s proposal for a wall.
• Estimates of the total cost of President Trump’s plan vary widely, ranging from the president’s estimate of $8 billion to over $40 billion.
It should cost less than that. The wall is just a couple of metal poles stuck in the ground.
Less than $40 Billion can easily house those that are homeless but are not addicted to drugs. Housing that portion alone will make the homeless issue that much easier to deal with. Yes, there are homeless people that are not addicted to drugs.
Plus even the ones who are homeless because of drug addiction, cannot really be helped if they are left on the street. It is not an environment conducive to healing, and rehabilitation. Yes, of course these addicts have to want for and by themselves to get better, but if the avenue to get better is not there for them, then it wont matter. They cannot get better even if they want to.
$40 Billion will go a long way to helping everyone.
True, true, and true. Has anyone ever heard of our government proposing $40 BILLION to bolster care for the homeless, medicaid, medicare, etc.? I have never even heard of such a thing.
This is just another Joe Biden disaster that could've been avoided with a decent president that didn't have an air pocket between his ears. More useless spending that didn't have to happen.
How many more billions is the incompetent demented geezer going to throw away for his bleeding-heart liberal comrades? Then he has the gall and audacity to give the people on Maui $700? That's insulting. He must really believe everyone is as stupid and brain dead as he is.
I wouldn't be surprised if these illegals and asylum claimants started breaking into homes and taking up residence in them while scaring the owners off. There won't be enough LE to stop them all. I would suggest that everyone update the security of their homes.
Mine is multiple firearms and a big mean dog.
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