The U.S. Mexico border wall proposed by President Donald Trump is starting to look like more of a political statement rather than defensive one. Apparently, the budget for the proposed project is at $8 to $50 billion. The said amount suggests that it would be impossible to construct such a massive structure without commissioning immigrant labor.
President Donald Trump's budget range for the U.S. Mexico border wall that caps at $50 billion is probably not enough if immigrant labor is not used in the project. Moreover, the proposed wall that will stand at 40-feet and stretch 2000-miles long will a take a long time to polish all the legal licensing requirements.
According to the chief economist of the Associated General Contractors of America Ken another issue that the proposed border wall will encounter is that being a federal project, it will have a different level of vetting as compared to projects by private owners. Archinect reported that contractors will have to show and prove that appropriate procedures have been taken with regard to their legality as a worker.
Furthermore, there is also an issue with obtaining security clearances for the workers in order to be able to work on locations with a military base or the like. The latter is both time-consuming and expensive, as a result, many potential works will be invalidated.
Another notable problem President Donald Trump's border wall will encounter is the uncertainty of the wall's specifications. It is said that the U.S. Mexico border wall will stretch 2000 miles, however, it is unclear if it will include the walls and fences that are already installed in certain areas. Moreover, there is also the question regarding the need to build through national parks, deserts, and Native American lands.
The same report claims that the possibility that the U.S. congress will approve the proposed border wall is still vague. "The wider purpose of the fence in my personal opinion is that it looks good: if you look at a continental map of the U.S and the line that's drawn on there, that's what the line is for. It's a symbol more than anything. You look like you're doing something," Reveal quoted Michael Corey as saying.
