“President Donald Trump has set in motion his plan to build an "impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall" between the US and Mexico.
The border is about 1,900 miles (3,100 km) long and traverses all sorts of terrain.
Mr Trump says his wall will cover 1,000 miles and natural obstacles will take care of the rest.
But how much will it cost and who is going to foot the bill? "I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I build them very inexpensively."
Mr Trump claims the total cost of the wall will be $10bn (£7.5bn) to $12bn. But estimates from fact checkers and engineers seem to be universally higher.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell estimated it will cost between $12-15bn, as he addressed reporters at a Republican
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Raising tariffs on imports. Mr Trump's spokesman, Sean Spicer, said on 26 January that the president wanted a 20% tax on Mexican imports to pay for the wall, although he later added that it was one of several options still being considered. "By doing it that way we can do $10bn (£8bn) a year and easily pay for the wall, just through that mechanism alone," he told journalists. Forbes has argued that existing duties on Mexican goods would have to be quadrupled to pay for the whole of the wall, even if its cost were spread over 10 years. US companies would also almost certainly source products from elsewhere, reducing the revenue. The Mexican government could respond by removing tax benefits for US foreign investment. The investment totalled $101bn in 2013.
2. Remittances. Two possibilities here. President Trump could try to use laws aimed at preventing money-laundering to halt Mexicans working in the US from wiring money to families back home. The sector is huge - about $25bn a year. The hope is that the threat would cow Mexico into coughing up for the wall. The second option is to tax the remittances. Either a flat tax on all, or a far more punitive tax on those
Trump doesn't want any immigrants in the United States. The reason why Trumps wants to build the wall is that he wants to keep all the criminals, drugs, gang, and violence out according to Fox News. The budget plan for border security is $23 billion and $18 billion for building the border. Also, the prototypes will be 30 feet tall and 30 feet wide and it will cost up to $500,000. In other words, he says
He says this wall will cost in total of eight million dollars, and that Mexico will pay for it. The wall will span one thousand miles and be made of concrete slabs that will go up to forty feet high. Trump says this wall will look good, and be what a wall should really look like (Kessler). The wall that we already have on the border costed 2.4 billion, and only covers about one third of the border which is only about 670 miles (Kessler). So Trump wants to build a better wall, which has no grantee that it will work.
In recent news our new president Donald Trump has proposed of building a 30-foot-high wall bordering the United States and Mexico. The purpose of this wall is to keep illegal immigrants from entering therefore keeping our population down. The wall will be 30-feet high and roughly 2,000 miles long. The price of this wall is unknown but it will need a $2.6 billion down payment from Congress. In America our society has become more accepting with African-Americans.
Into further detail, the whole border wall would be over $10 million. Where is the government supposed to collect all this money from? Do they even have a set price for all the materials alone? For example, “ But other estimates suggest there are enough uncertainties to drive the cost up to $15 billion, and possibly as much as $25 billion, according to a report from Bernstein Research, which tracks materials costs” (Isidore). The cost is one of the main reasons why people are declining the idea of this border
But, how? The wall is just blocking on part or our country and that country being blocked could come up with other methods to act and find way to bypass the wall. Trump is a person who has many goals, but doesn't think through them He doesn't see the full effect of his ideas and how others would be effected. The wall would be useless and just cause more and more chaos. According to David Martin, a professor at Grinnell College, he wrote a article and said “This strategy is politically appealing for its simplicity, but it misunderstands the problems of globalization and migration it aims to address. Building walls has rarely has achieved its intended effect, and may result in wasted resources and lost opportunities for the United States.” Many walls have Ben built throughout the world and many of the walls seem useless. The wall that would be built by trump is t necessary, it's just a waste of resources. He also wrote “In U.S. history, building paper and concrete walls resulted in episodes that today are widely viewed by historians as inconsistent with our better democratic angels.” The U.S. building a wall won't help our economy won't help our country. In our past, the U.S. and other nations have tries this and they failed, so I can we say we will succeed. Donald Trump doesn't think thoroughly he plans and only acts on based upon what he sees, which will eventually lead to a decrease in our U.S.
President trumps wall will cost about $21.6 billion, and on top of that, it will cost $150 million a year to
In previous years, many countries and territories around the world have attempted to build walls, and many have had very much success. For example, Most of the walls built after World War 2 and the Cold War still exist today. There were a total of 110 walls built between that time period. Professor Nazli Avdan led a study that had a goal of identifying if a border wall reduced or increased the risk of a transnational terrorist attack. This study found that since the year 1900, transnational terrorist attacks have seen a thirteen percent annual decrease in countries with border walls (Border fences reduce...attacks). This has been a real focal point that President Donald Trump has used to get people to agree with him. Another reason of his includes the disrupting of the funneling of illicit money and drugs into the United States of America (Border fences reduce...attacks). The bonus of the building of the wall is that it will be a visible sign of the government taking action.
There are many pros and cons to the wall on the border of the U.S. and Mexico. The main reason why Trump was doing this was to stop illegal drugs from crossing the border into America. He is hoping that it will stop and America would be great again because we won thave that many illegal drugs and that there wouldn´t be that many terrorist attacks going on like the boston marathon or anything worse than that.
A one thousand wall would certainly keep any Mexican out of the United States. Lots of other totalitarian regimes and democracies have built a wall before including India, Thailand, Israel, South Africa, and the European Union. A wall will keep the rapists, criminals, and drug cartels from going to Mexico while keeping those qualified Mexican workers back where they belong. The construction of the wall will also provide a lot of jobs for those poor Canadian illegal immigrants who are seeking safety from the cold up north. The wall can also act as a blank canvas for many out of work artists or they can use the paper from the trees that are torn down in the process. Mexico is also going pay for the wall because they are and that's that,
The Department of Homeland Security “dhs” were set to build a total of 370 miles but only completed a 300 mile section by the end of december 2008. The biggest problem that hey rain in too was that they couldn't get all the land that they needed to finish the fence. They reserved the right to build the fence on April 1, 2008. There is still a number of miles that has no wall or fence (vitiello). The wall caused an estimated 4 billion annually to keep the wall maintained. There will also be a cost to pay people to
There is talk on what the cost would be, along with whether or not it could actually be done. Although Trump states the wall would only cost about $8 billion to $12 billion, officials and engineers state that the cost is far above that, potentially reaching $25 billion. However, Trump state this because he believes that he will only have to build a wall that is 1000 miles long since we have a lot of natural barriers by the border (Kessler 1). However, the cost is not the only question that has arisen on the media. The actual possibility on whether or not the wall could be built has arisen too. So, because of the high cost, and Mexico already stating that they will not pay for the barrier, people are stating that the wall cannot be built because we do not have that type of money laying around. However, if Mexico were to end up paying for the wall, it could very well be possible that the wall be built (Rhiannon
5. A wall will be built on our southern border using funds taken from departments other than Homeland Security. After Mexico refuses to pay for it, Trump then sells advertising space on the wall in both English and Spanish.
“It is not a fence, it is a wall. You just misreported it. We are going to build a wall” said president Donald Trump on January 11, 2017 (CNN). The wall would take place along the southern border between the United States and Mexico. This situation brings up numerous reasons why not to waste the money, time and energy to build a wall. Just considering how effective was France’s maginot line in the 1930s, or presently, how useful Hungary’s wall is against the syrian refugees, it is clear that building a wall is counterproductive. Cannot be missed to mention that the construction work to build 1954 miles long steel wall president Donald Trump wants, would require one presidential term, 5,000 additional border protection officers and approximately
To pay for the border wall, fees could be imposed to go across the wall. However, before it is built, an additional import tax could be levied on foreign countries that provide products to the United States and these extra taxes could build the structure. Once the wall is built, if it is built so that it can provide either wind energy or solar energy, the money earned from the selling of that energy could be used to sustain whatever costs are involved with the wall.
RESPONSE: In the article it says” Trump promises to build a wall along the U.S-Mexico border to stop illegal immigration and that he’ll make Mexico foot the bill.” In my mind this isn’t achievable for Trump. The immigration problem goes one way and that’s for Mexicans illegally coming into the U.S. There has not been an outcry from the Mexican government or population of Mexico about Americans illegally going into their country. So they would have no reason to pay for a wall to protect their border as