No it won't. Once it is built, it will cost something to maintain. The money lost for those who lose their property via imminent domain will never stop growing.
That's fair. But think how big it's total footprint will be in width, and imagine what that land is worth, at the moment, or is likely to ever be, with an open border. If if there was an appropriate use for eminent domain, that'd be it.
Again, that is one thing to say in Knoxville, TN. Go to the border and tell the people making a living on the land there that. Try to convince them that the wall would even be effective, relative to the cost.
After it was condemned by the US government following lawsuits by the Fed against land owners who refused to allow government inspectors to come in and survey their land, so it could be condemned.
Are we talking historical. We're talking about building a wall 40 years ago? That'll be a cool trick.
2008, actually. When land was condemned to build the border fence. Something like 900 miles. Which would be jusssssssst a bit short of the 2000 miles needed for the wall. So, I assume, that about another 1000 miles of private land will need to be appropriated by the US government. But screw those Americans. They aren't the rest of us.
from what I can tell private land isn't the issue as there isn't much of it. the primary problem is a lot of it are protected wildlife areas meaning the EPA would throw a fit.
I think it's weird that people are freaking out over the cost. we are attempting to build a bullet train in California that isn't at all needed and won't service the greatest population centers that will cost at least 3 times even the most aggressive estimates of what this wall will cost. thanks Obama! we build expensive pointless shit all the time. i'm not suggesting it needs to be built, but even the highest estimates aren't really that expensive by American govt standards.
just touring DC and looking around at the pile of money pissed away on elaborate and ornate buildings for pure bureaucracy should make us cry. It's ludicrous.
When they built the fence, they suspended the wildlife protection act, or whatever. I don't recall the number, but I think DHS suspended something like 22 acts of Congress to build the fence. So EPA can throw a fit all they want, if mandated to build, it'll get built. EPA is, after all, an executive body. I would assume the head of the executive body could just tell them to pound sand, and they'd have to listen.
