Trump’s border wall is estimated to cost $8 million to $25 million per mile

[TomSea]

Wall may well pay for itself anyway.

The Cost of a Border Wall vs. the Cost of Illegal Immigration
By Steven A. Camarota February 2017

Download a PDF of this Backgrounder.

Steven A. Camarota is the director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies.

The findings of this analysis show that if a border wall stopped a small fraction of the illegal immigrants who are expected to come in the next decade, the fiscal savings from having fewer illegal immigrants in the country would be sufficient to cover the costs of the wall. This analysis takes the likely education level of illegal border-crossers and applies fiscal estimates developed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) for immigrants by education level. NAS calculates the future fiscal balance immigrants create — taxes paid minus costs. NAS reports fiscal balances as "net present values", which places a lower value on future expenditures than on current expenditures.

Based on the NAS data, illegal border-crossers create an average fiscal burden of approximately $74,722 during their lifetimes, excluding any costs for their U.S.-born children. If a border wall stopped between 160,000 and 200,000 illegal crossers — 9 to 12 percent of those expected to successfully cross in the next decade — the fiscal savings would equal the $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall.1

http://cis.org/The-Cost-of-a-Border-Wall-vs-the-Cost-of-Illegal-Immigration

[SirLinksALot]

RE:  the fiscal savings would equal the $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall.1

The only problem with that is it does not tell us how long the Wall will be and it does not address the issue of $8 million to $25 million per mile estimate ( and based on experience, we know that the government ALWAYS underestimates the cost of a project ).

[XenaLee]

RE:  the fiscal savings would equal the $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall.1

The only problem with that is it does not tell us how long the Wall will be and it does not address the issue of $8 million to $25 million per mile estimate ( and based on experience, we know that the government ALWAYS underestimates the cost of a project ).

And gee... maybe the government could generate some border wall money by selling off some of property acquired from that massive land-grab they've been undertaking for the past decade or so.  Why the hell does "big government" need all that land anyway? 

[Wingnut]

And gee... maybe the government could generate some border wall money by selling off some of property acquired from that massive land-grab they've been undertaking for the past decade or so.  Why the hell does "big government" need all that land anyway?

The Government just needs a big Land Snatch 

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YBInZrRx5c&ab_channel=EdMorrissey

[catfish1957]

I'll never understand why the core Trump supporters in this forum take any slight against Donald personally.

Defending the "un-defendable" is a monumental task, and only successful if participant can exude a hyper-defensive posture.

[catfish1957]

The Government just needs a big Land Snatch 

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YBInZrRx5c&ab_channel=EdMorrissey

Snatch?  I'm having '70's flashbacks.

[Chosen Daughter]

I'll never understand why the core Trump supporters in this forum take any slight against Donald personally.

My guess is that they believe he is so fragile that if anyone questions him he may break and Hillary will pop up like birthday balloons to take over the show.  Then Trump will have to tweet about celebrity ratings going down.

[Idiot]

And gee... maybe the government could generate some border wall money by selling off some of property acquired from that massive land-grab they've been undertaking for the past decade or so.  Why the hell does "big government" need all that land anyway?

Just put advertising on the wall.  That's one heck of a billboard...lol.

[Suppressed]

Just put advertising on the wall.  That's one heck of a billboard...lol.

[Suppressed]

And gee... maybe the government could generate some border wall money by selling off some of property acquired from that massive land-grab they've been undertaking for the past decade or so.  Why the hell does "big government" need all that land anyway?

The Feds hold land sales, and there just aren't buyers.  Lots of the land is a net cost to the feds.  The states don't want it (and have to get the upkeep); private entities don't want it.  It sits unsold.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

The Feds hold land sales, and there just aren't buyers.  Lots of the land is a net cost to the feds.  The states don't want it (and have to get the upkeep); private entities don't want it.  It sits unsold.