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Marguerite, the Beloved

Do Republicans realize that to build the wall on the US/ Mexico border, they will have to pay for the land it's on?

1. It will probably be on the US side. That land is private land. Even if they have eminent domain, they still have to pay the landowner. 
2. Have they figured that out in the cost of the wall? 
3. Then, there is a bigger pipeline called the Trans-Pecos Pipeline that will carry gas from West Texas to Mexico, to be sold there. It takes millions of gallons of water to extract the natural gas. Who will pay for the water from the Texas aquifers? How will the wall work over the huge pipeline? The pipes are bigger than those for the Keystone Pipeline. 
4. There are other pipelines going from the US to Mexico.

Posted - February 21, 2017
Tag : #boundaries

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  • "I wonder how deep the Wall is going to be." .....  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36099336
      February 21, 2017 1:08 PM MST
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  • 2515
    @Alf, I've heard 6 ft. deep. 
      February 22, 2017 11:07 PM MST
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  • The article I linked says the last tunnel they found ran at a depth of 46 ft.
      February 23, 2017 12:44 AM MST
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  • It isn't going to happen. Most people know that.  If it were to happen though, trust me they would find a way to fudge the fair market value for pennies on the dollar.
      February 21, 2017 1:10 PM MST
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  • 7799
    These are things that the Chump Administration hasn't thought about since all of them are sharing one brain. Unfortunately, that brain is Chumps.
      February 21, 2017 1:12 PM MST
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  • and it's not much of a brain at that.. full of hype and 4th grade vocabulary. Just like all kids that age.. all big talk and none of it means anything
      February 21, 2017 1:27 PM MST
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  • 3463
    He is not going to have that wall built.
    He lied to get the people who want that wall to vote for him.
      February 21, 2017 1:21 PM MST
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  • 5808
    ohhh what did
    I hear that was hilarious?
         "He has the intellectual capacity
    of a Protozoan" wow
    Could you ever think that
    of anyone? haha
      February 21, 2017 4:54 PM MST
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  • 2515
    @Baba, personally, I think he has mental issues. The Dark Triad. 
      February 22, 2017 11:10 PM MST
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  • 53559
    Your first numbered point is only partially correct.  Why do you assume or surmise that it's all private land?  There are many areas along the US/Mexico border that are public land. 
    ~
      February 21, 2017 9:19 PM MST
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  • 2515
    @Randy, I don't assume. I did my homework.

    The Government Accountability Office reports that federal and tribal lands make up 632 miles of the 2,000 miles of the border between the US and Mexico. That is 33% of the border. The remaining part is private or state-owned, most of which is located in Texas. Besides that, there are natural borders you can't build fences or walls on. Then there are Native American burial grounds that belong to reservations. 
      February 22, 2017 11:19 AM MST
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  • 53559


    So you have just acknowledged that it's not all private land, haven't you?  State-owned is not private.

    :|


      February 22, 2017 3:55 PM MST
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  • 22891
    they might not realize it or dont care
      February 22, 2017 1:36 PM MST
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  • 2515
    @Pearl, money doesn't seem to be an issue with Trump. 
      February 22, 2017 11:11 PM MST
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  • 2515
    @Randy, state-owned is not federal land either. It belongs to the state. The federal government still has to pay the states for their land. My point is that building a wall may cost the federal government more than it is reported. 
      February 22, 2017 11:06 PM MST
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  •   February 23, 2017 1:03 AM MST
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