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Originally Posted by nol
Let's put it this way: it will cost enough that even Donald Trump does not think it would be a worthy investment for the American government to make.
The number for me comes from multiplying the cost it would take to build just a continuous fence along the border (about $20-25 billion) by what it would take to build a YUGE, classy wall along those 2,000 miles and then adding in the costs of constantly patrolling and maintaining the wall. And then I guess you could account for the fact that the manpower used to build, patrol, and maintain the wall could be instead used for other things, and that's even before considering the aforementioned drastic effects such a wall would have on industries our country relies on.
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I'd much more favor putting the full power of the military to use in actually defending our borders from the constant assault they're under but, failing that, I can think of few (if any) better uses of the money & manpower you described.
Whatever it takes.