Trump's cost estimations do not include the cost of building in more
treacherous terrain, access roads, maintenance, or acquiring land in
Texas, where almost all border landholdings are privately held. Building this wall would require stripping landholders in my very own
home state of Texas of their private land. Instead of wasting $1.6 billion on building a wall, that money could
be appropriated to maintaining our effective border security and
immigration practices, like those currently in place for asylum
seekers. The United States already enforces the most extensive immigration and
border security practices in the world. We have
This is a bad business deal for the American people. Third, I oppose the Carter Amendment because it is represents a
policy shift that will have dire consequences for our economy that far
exceed the $50 billion estimated cost of this wall.
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