"Good fences make good neighbors" - Granite Grok

“Good fences make good neighbors”

border_wallI mentioned this yesterday – a bit more info (reformatted, emphasis mine):

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday that it plans to start awarding contracts by mid-April for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico, signaling that he is aggressively pursuing plans to erect “a great wall” along the 2,000-mile border.

The agency said it will request bids on or around March 6 and that companies would have to submit “concept papers” to design and build prototypes by March 10, according to a website for federal contractors. The field of candidates will be narrowed by March 20 and finalists must submit offers with their proposed costs by March 24. The president told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that construction will start “very soon” and is “way, way, way ahead of schedule.”

Like him or not, you have to admit that with anything that he can do within the strictures of established Law, he’s keeping his promises and doing it quickly.  So the bids start in about a week – that’s only 6 weeks into his Presidency.

After 10-12 years where the US Ruling Class basically turned on the green illegal alien traffic and combined with “Pass anywhere GO and get $200″ mentality, I for one am loving this.  Sorry Progressives, this is NOT “Un-American”; what IS American is following The Rule of Law which both Bush, Obama, and the rest of the “Political Class” ignored all these years.  Heck, I am thrilled that we are returning back to a bedrock American Principle.

But what DOES it say that a politician has to PROMISE to merely “faithfully execute the Law” and then gets excoriated for doing just that?  What does it say for the “other side” (e.g., the Open Borders folks, Democrats, Progressives, the illegal alien lawyers guild, anyone else in the money and virtue-signaling pool) that they don’t want the Rule of Law?

You have to love the fact that most of these illegal aliens come here to get away from their native hellholes – because their home countries don’t adhere to The Rule of Law.

The agency’s notice gave no details on where the wall would be built first and how many miles would be covered initially. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has sought employees’ opinions during border tours of California, Arizona and Texas.

It’s unclear how soon Congress would provide funding and how much. The Government Accountability Office estimates a wall would cost on average $6.5 million a mile for a fence to keep out people who try to enter on foot and $1.8 million a mile for vehicle barriers. There are currently 354 miles of pedestrian fencing and 300 miles of vehicle barriers. Republican leaders in Congress have said Trump’s wall would cost between $12 billion and $15 billion. Trump has suggested $12 billion.

How many times have we’ve seen legislation passed to build walls and “not much” gets done other than a few miles of “PR” stuff (although the San Diego area seems to have done some good according to my co-worker living in that area).  If just these last 5 weeks hold true, Trump will hold to his promise and we’ll see a whole lot of it done.  If nothing else, these last 5 weeks has been a “promise keeping fest”.

An internal Homeland Security Department report prepared for Kelly estimates the cost of extending the wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border at about $21 billion.

A 10 year 10% tax on remittances sent back to Mexico – paid for.

(H/T: NY Post)

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