U.S. hopes to have border wall finished within two years: official

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



Thu Feb 2, 2017 | 11:23am EST

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Thursday he hoped to have a wall along the southern U.S. border with Mexico finished within two years, according to an interview with Fox News.

"The wall will be built where it's needed first, and then it will be filled in. That's the way I look at it," Kelly said in the interview. "I really hope to have it done within the next two years." He added he thought funding from Congress for the massive project would come "relatively quickly."

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[atreides1]

1. Another Hack

Former Marine General John Kelly...looks like another closet fascist! Some of these former generals are nothing more then puffed up, unqualified hacks...Flynn, Mattis, Kelly...what an embarrassment!

None of these men ever loved this country, not as much as they loved their over rated abilities...

[Rowdyag]

2. 😹😹😹😹

This wall is as useful as teats on a boar hog

[dhill926]

3. I imagine there just might be...

a bit of sabotage involving this project. Build it...blow it up.....repeat....

[Trust Buster]

4. Please, the lawsuits from land owners won't even wind through the courts in 2 years.

[mtngirl47]

15. Remember--the Republicans love imminent domain

and they have a leader who is experienced at invoking it.

[Kilgore]

30. Here is how it's done

Seize the needed land after declaring an emergency.

Build the wall.

Write the landowner a fat check.

Problem solved.

[Trust Buster]

33. I have read that the majority of ranchers along the border don't want their ranches cut in half.

Like the Nebraska farmers fighting the XL pipeline in court, this will take a hell of a lot longer than two years. I stand by my statement.

[Kilgore]

36. That's why a national emergency will be declared.

[Trust Buster]

37. No, another thread just appeared today explaining how House Republicans are already getting an

earful from property owners. There will be no emergency orders.

[Kilgore]

38. Time will tell which method they will use.

Plus legislator is another word for spineless creature.

[NCjack]

5. The cut rate labors that build the wall will be marking spots that

they will return to for digging the tunnels.

[starshine00]

40. I know

drug cartels can build tunnels like no one's business, they tunneled El Chapo out of prison...this wall is going to do nothing and help no one except those that supply the materials, it is the stupidest thing ever. moving all the factories to China after NAFTA had given so many people in Mexico stability is the straw that broke the camel's back and turned Mexico into a failed state. A wall is just another obstacle for to get around and get around it they will.

[NCjack]

41. Pres. Nixon, Pres. Ford, and Sec. Butts wreckrd USA's small family farms with

their Ag policy: "Get Big or Get Out" (of farming). NAFTA has in similar fashion, thanks to the US's mega-farmers selling cheap corn into Mexico, destroyed the Mexican small family farms. Millions of Mexicans were forced off their farms, and their properties were aggregated into mega-farms. Having no homes and no jobs, the natural outcome is migration toward available jobs in urban Mexican cities and the USA. Want to reduce the flow of migrants from Mexico? Return both USA and MEX to small family farms.

[starshine00]

42. Monsanto won't let that happen

but on the downlow I think that is the only conceivable means of survival in the long run, I am learning how to compost right now so I can start growing my own vegetables...I think more people than the gov't is aware of are going back to subsistence means of getting by because we trusted the gov't and so many people lost so much...it just doesn't work.

[hunter]

6. ROFL. What are they going to use? Blue tarps from China?

Morons.

[briv1016]

12. They'll splurge and get the 6' chainlink from Home Depot/Lowes instead of the 4'.

[Angry Dragon]

13. that would be a fence not a wall ....... I was promised a walll .............

the hugest, tallest wall the world has ever seen
Trump wants a wall Huger than the Wall of China

[hunter]

16. A Potemkin wall.

It will be made of Papier-mâché.

[Angry Dragon]

17. Like a pinata??

[hunter]

19. Of course. It will be a great wall. An impressive wall.

Filled with the very finest Trump candy.

[Angry Dragon]

20. candy is sweet------------nothing sweet about Trump

and he would never give anything without a fee

[hunter]

21. To Trump, that's the brilliance of the plan.

He fills the wall with Trump brand candy nobody wants and makes us all pay for it.

[RegexReader]

31. round up any undocumented laborer and use them

as slave labor on the wall. Would not be surprised at all if this happened.

[meadowlander]

7. Alternate plan:

Start where it's needed (nowhere) and then just stop.

Seriously, why are we spending $20 billion to "fill in" bits where the wall isn't needed? Aesthetics?

[Ray Bruns]

8. Then Homeland Secretary John Kelly promised the following:

1: Unicorns that crap gold dust in every garage.
2. The check is in the mail.
3. I love you.
You see where I am going with this.

[snooper2]

9. So will I get top value for this in two years?

[christx30]

14. $20 billion wall. Defeated by a $40 ladder.

Good thing every other problem in the US has been solved, so we can allocate this huge amount of money toward the wall.
Glad every family has a roof over their heads.
Glad every child has a good education, and food security.
Glad the roads have been fixed, and crumbling bridges have been upgraded.
Glad veterans have all of their healthcare taken care of, so that $20 billion isn't needed there.

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. They're digging tunnels already

Our new police chief in Houston, Art Acevedo, was talking about it on the radio yesterday. As long as there are jobs, they will come. He said that if they truly wanted to get rid of undocumented workers they would come down HARD on the people and companies who hire them. No one, at least not on the right, ever suggests doing that.

He also said that while they will certainly arrest undocumented people who have committed a crime, that they will not be checking for legal status because even if they did, it only a misdemeanor with a small civil penalty. He said his job was first and foremost to keep Houston SAFE and part of that is to have a good working relationship with the Latino community.

He said if the feds want to enforce immigration laws, they can spend the money and hire the staff to do so, but that "HPD has more important things to do".

[Cryptoad]

10. Reckon they are going to no-bid the contracts like they did for,,,,

the Chaney-Haliburton wall section......

[lark]

11. Wonder how he's going to blame the failure to even complete 1/2 of this in that time on Obama?

You know that somehow it's all the black guy's fault in his mind, or at least that's what he will be trying to sell to ignorant trumpers.
Just like the failure of the mission is Obamas' fault (nope, it's his, he approved it, not Obama) so will every other screw up in his administration.

[madokie]

18. What is the plan on the river

will the wall be on our side, their side or down the middle of the river?

[hunter]

22. Nobody will be crossing the river once it's filled with fracking waste and lit on fire.

No need for a wall then.

[Vinca]

23. How high will it be? I need to know for my Mexican ladder factory.

[KewlKat]

24. you can't fix stupid

[Thrill]

26. Idiots

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. Might as well build a wall that makes us look like paranoid assholes,

in only two weeks trump has turned the whole world against us anyway.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Here's how they'll do it

Prop up hundreds of miles of this -



and hope it doesn't rain!

[El Mimbreno]

29. Not if the Monkey Wrench Gang has anything to say about it

Hayduke Lives!

[pfitz59]

34. Hayduke lives!

Too funny

[EarthFirst]

32. It'll be cordwood and lime plaster

The spoils from selling out the National Parks to the logging and mineral industries....

[a la izquierda]

35. Ah, this will be fun...

I'm sure the cartels will have a field day picking off workers left and right.

[Deuce]

39. This is so idiotic...what a waste of resources.

[Kennah]

43. Wall versus Unwall