sfgate.com — The cost of building and maintaining a double set of steel fences along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border could be five to 25 times greater than congressional leaders forecast last year, or as much as $49 billion over the expected 25-year life span of the fence, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
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jessicah628Jan 8, 2007Submitter
This doesn't even include the costs of buying private land that will be needed to build the fence. Imagine what the price could go up to...
Closed AccountJan 8, 2007
> This doesn't even include the costs of buying private land screw that... this is a matter of national security; the land will just be appropriated.Here's what I'm thinking: at 100' wide by 50' deep ditch filled with water non-soluble sticky foam (same kind of stuff they use in the nuke labs) with of density less than that of the human body. as they try to come over, they get stuck trying to swim across and slowly sink to the bottom never to be heard from again. When the trench fills up, then we know it's time to build a wall.
jessicah628Jan 8, 2007Submitter
That is a thought...As far as emminent domain, they can seize the property, but they have to pay fair market value for it.