Well, you can buy an interstate highway, and you can have $2.7
million left over and change per mile. We can take one annual budget of
our southern border--if we do what Mr. O'Rourke wants to do and open
the border, we can lay the Border Patrol off for a year, take that $6.7
million a mile, the $13.4 billion, and we can build an interstate
highway the full length of that and have $2.7 million a mile left over. That is how much money is being spent on the southern border to get 25
percent efficiency. You cannot convince me that if we spend $1.3 million a mile for the
wall--if we dial that up to 2 or a little more than $2 million a mile
so we can cover a fence on either side of that wall and access roads
that would be built out of necessity to build it and to maintain it and
to patrol it--a couple million dollars a mile on that, wouldn't give us
something pretty close to Israeli-level border security. That is nearly
100 percent. That is up into the 99 percentile and beyond that into the
efficiency of the security of our border.
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