The state has built about 34 miles of wall spread out across at least six counties on Texas’ 1,254-mile border with Mexico.
At half a mile a week, Gov. Greg Abbott ’s border wall will take around 30 years and $20 billion to buildGov. Greg Abbott looks at crane lifting a section of the border wall in place after giving a press conference at Rio Grande City on Dec. 18, 2021.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.
At a facilities commission meeting last month, Novak said state officials were in various stages of negotiation with landowners over another 113 miles. The earliest wall construction has cost roughly $25 million to $30 million per mile, according to TFC officials. That would amount to $20 billion to $24 billion for the entire 805-mile span, orof paying every Texas public university student’s tuition last year. The estimate does not account for the cost of maintaining the wall once it is built, which TFC estimates will cost around $500,000 per mile each year.
The scope of Texas' wall construction — and Abbott’s broader border security efforts — are unprecedented in nature, as the federal government is generally responsible for immigration enforcement and the costs associated with it.
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