Enough funding has been
placed on contract to build 256 miles of barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border,
acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan told Congress Wednesday, Politico
reports. Testifying at the Senate Defense Appropriations subcommittee, Shanahan
estimated about “a half a mile a day will be produced” during the next six
months. The source of the funding, he added, is Homeland Security border
funding, diverted Pentagon money, and Treasury forfeiture funds. Shanahan also
told the committee there were now 4,364 Guard and active-duty troops on the
border, which he said did not affect military readiness. - GOP Insider Brief 5/9/19.
At the rate of
one-half mile per day, it takes a year to build 182.5 miles of border wall. At
that rate, it will take 10 years to build 1825 miles of border wall. That means that the Border Patrol and
Military will continue to need 10,000 personnel to secure the border for at
least another year before personnel costs can begin to be reduced. If it costs
$50,000 per year to deploy one guard including vehicles and equipment, it would
cost $500 billion a year to keep the border wall secure without a wall. A $25
billion wall investment could save $250 billion a year if personnel could be
reduced to 5,000.
Democrats remain
committed to bankrupting the US federal government. Obama took the national
debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in 8 years. Democrats want open borders
and more illegal welfare migrants to vote for them. But welfare needs to be
removed for immigrants to remove the economic incentive to migrate to the US.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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