5 challenges Trump may face building a border wa

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5 challenges Trump may face building a border wall
By Kevin Schaul and Samuel Granados
Jan. 25, 2017

A 6th and unstated challenge is how Trump is going to explain that the costs will be borne by the U.S. and not by Mexico. LOL!

3. Most of the border is natural, but a human-made barrier is not

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/natio...rder-wall/

The southern border of Texas is technically somewhere in the middle of the Rio Grande. The river has changed course in the past, creating boundary disputes between the United States and Mexico.

The existing border fencing in southern Texas often sits far from the river, outside its flood plains — creating wide seams between the fence and the official border.

Some Americans live on the Mexican side of the border fence.

River Bend Resort, a golf course and residence in Brownsville, Tex., sits between a gap in the existing fence. If the wall were completed, based on U.S. regulations, it would bisect the property, according to owner Jeremy Barnard. Roughly 200 residents and 15 of the 18 golf holes would sit south of the border wall.

Said in an announcer's whisper: "hole # 8 is a tricky par 7 with a 'wall hazard' LOL!

“What is the government’s plan? Are they going to come and buy out 200 people of their houses?” he said. “There’s so much more to it than ‘let’s just build a wall.’ ”

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