First on CNN: Border wall ask: $1 billion for 62 miles

[libertybele]

In light if the current healthcare fiasco, this needs to go through.

First on CNN: Border wall ask: $1 billion for 62 miles

Washington (CNN)The Trump administration wants the first $1 billion of border wall funding to cover 62 miles -- including replacing some existing fencing along the southern border.
The $999 million requested by the White House in its budget supplement for just defense and border security spending would cover just 48 miles of new wall, according to justification documents from the Department of Homeland Security obtained by CNN.

The documents describe exactly where the administration hopes to put its first installment of the border wall, as it described its modest 2017 funding ask.

The money will fund 14 miles of new border wall in San Diego, 28 miles of new levee wall barriers and six miles of new border wall in the Rio Grande Valley region and 14 miles of replacement fencing in San Diego. The fencing would likely include concrete elements, a source familiar with the plans told CNN.

President Donald Trump made building a border along the entire US Southern border a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, and repeatedly pledged Mexico would pay for it, but the initial ask for funds to start building has been modest. The administration requested $1 billion in its supplemental for 2017, and another $2.6 billion for border infrastructure and technology in 2018.Estimates for a full wall along the Southern border have ranged from $12 billion to more than $20 billion.
The budget request documents also make clear that the Trump administration is looking to ramp up border security elsewhere, specifying millions to bolster detention facilities and legal support for building the wall.
The documents also claim that Trump's executive orders on immigration enforcement are already having an effect, saying arrests are up 50%, charges are up 40% and requests to detain arrested individuals who are deportable are up 80%. When asked, ICE did not have information on what the administration is using as a baseline...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/politics/trump-border-wall-cost-distance/

[kevindavis007]

I thought that Mexico was going to pay for the wall???

[Cripplecreek]

I thought that Mexico was going to pay for the wall???

When Trump was in Michigan Rick Snyder should have pointed at the Detroit river and said "You know who's paying for that new bridge? Canada." 

[kevindavis007]

When Trump was in Michigan Rick Snyder should have pointed at the Detroit river and said "You know who's paying for that new bridge? Canada."