Trump's Border Wall Has Already Cost San Diego Millions
TRUMP'S BORDER WALL WAS A $2.6M HIT ON SAN DIEGO TAXPAYERS
BY NICOLE RODRIGUEZ ON 1/19/18 AT 5:11 PM
San Diego taxpayers paid a heavy price for President Donald Trumps long-promised border walland they won't get a dime back.
The San Diego County Sheriffs Office and San Diego Police Department incurred more than $2 million of added costs to patrol the isolated area around
eight border wall prototypes that were constructed to test designs for a larger border wall.
Between September and January, the Sheriffs Office paid out $1.6 million in overtime, environmental consultants and material for construction of a chain link fence around the prototypes,
The San Diego Union Tribune reported. The police department spent nearly $1 million in overtime, services and supplies, the publication reported.
Officials from both agencies say they were not providing security for the prototypes, rather securing the area in anticipation of protests that the Department of Homeland Security warned might resemble the weeks-long protest over the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017, the Union Tribune reported. Only one protest occurred, local officials told Newsweek.
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