It is about six pages of spreadsheet--five and
a half to be a little more accurate--but it is all built into the
interrelational databases that are necessary to add your materials and
your labor and your overhead and your costs to be able to build a wall. Now, here is what is really going on. We are spending, Mr. Speaker,
$13.4 billion a year in defending and protecting our southern border--
$13.4 billion. That turns out to be $6.7 million a mile. The Border
Patrol has come to the committee on numerous occasions and given
testimony. I have asked them: What percentage of those who attempt to cross the
border do you interdict successfully? Their answer before the committee has been: We think about 25
percent.
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