Texas
Related: About this forumAt half a mile a week, Gov. Greg Abbott's border wall will take around 30 years and $20 billion to build
BY JASPER SCHERER
JULY 3, 2024
Three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would take the extraordinary step of building a state-funded wall along the Mexico border, he has 34 miles of steel bollards to show for it.
That infrastructure which has so far run up a price tag of some $25 million per mile isnt yet a contiguous wall. It has gone up in bits and pieces spread across at least six counties on Texas 1,254-mile southern border. Progress has been hampered by the states struggles to secure land access, one of myriad challenges signaling a long and enormously expensive slog ahead for Abbott.
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Still, no Texas Republican has voted against border wall funding. Lawmakers approved nearly $2.5 billion for the effort in the states current two-year budget more than was allotted in state funds to all but a handful of state agencies, and more than twice what Texas spends on its court and juvenile justice systems. (Emphasis mine.)
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Sooo. Our maternal deaths are increasing; our infant mortality rates are increasing; we rank 41/42 in school funding; we lack access in pre and post natal care in large areas; our sales and property taxes are some of the highest in the nation.
This is what the rest of you can expect from a Republican sweep in November.
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Lovie777
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(764 posts)keithbvadu2
(38,923 posts)Donald's completed wall is to keep immigrants out.
Arizona has half the 400 some odd miles of Trump wall.
New Mexico and California has some.
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This article is from 2022.
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Beachnutt
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(764 posts)TFC, a state agency with fewer than 400 people, has assumed the role previously played by the Army Corp of Engineers (with approximately 37,000 personnel) to solicit, contract, engineer, and construct a permanent wall along the Texas- Mexico border.
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October 27, 2021 - We have identified a shortlist for the Design-Build Contractors for the Texas Border Infrastructure at this stage of the procurement process. Those entities invited to move on to the interview phase include BFBC of Texas, LLC; Fisher Sand and Gravel Co.; Posillico Civil, Inc.; SLSCO; and Southwest Valley Constructors Co. In keeping with State Procurement Guidelines, no other information is available until we complete this process.
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Just one company researched and found this from 2022
US Settles Border Wall Suit Against Contractor Fisher Sand & Gravel
😬 Your tax dollars at work.
Irish_Dem
(55,272 posts)Some things never change.