The first budget plan of the controversial US President Donald Trump has sparked some debate. It includes one sizeable down payment that fulfills the promise of constructing Trump's Mexico wall on the southern border.
Trump's Fiscal Year 2018 federal budget has called for $2.6 billion to put up "tactical infrastructure" as well as related security technology on the boundaries. This would call for $2 billion in order to make Trump's Mexico wall, according to Dezeen.
Another allocation of $1.5 billion would help to build up detention facilities for illegal immigrants too, says the New York Times. The US Congress will spend federal money as it sees fit. It would also arrive at decisions that have been based on the proposals of the President. However, it is expected that Democrats would oppose the construction of Trump's Mexico wall and hence the complete suggested sum may not reach the team.
Will he really able to translate his promises of building Trump's Mexico Wall? "It's easy to promise things until you have to pay for them," said Theresa Cardinal Brown, the director of immigration policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a former senior official at the Department of Homeland Security. "It is certainly an attempt to begin to carry out what he promised."
Initially, the 2,000-mile-long border was thought to cost $12 billion (£9.6 billion). However, a report from the Department of Homeland Security pegged up the estimated cost to be as high as $21 billion (£16.8 billion).
Just a month ago, he said that he would lower the price of Trump's Mexico wall when he becomes part of the "design or negotiations" talks. But Mexico turned down Trump's strange request to construct or pay for the wall.
Earlier this month, many details related to the design requirements as well as deadlines for submitting prototypes of Trump's Mexico wall were released. The tender has called for a 30-foot-tall concrete barrier, and bidders have until 20 March 2017 to submit first-round proposals.
