Texas spent $3 billion to build 65 miles of border wall. State has now stopped the project

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Only eight percent of the 805 miles that the state has identified for construction are finished, costing taxpayers more than $3 billion. The 30-foot-high wall costs roughly $28 million per mile to construct.

 

The wall has plenty of gaps that the migrants and smugglers can walk around, and it’s mostly concentrated on ranches in rural areas, where unlawful crossings are less likely to take place, The Tribune noted last year. Similarly, the paper found last year that the wall would take roughly 30 years and more than $20 billion to finish.

 

Texas spent $3 billion to build 65 miles of border wall. The state has now stopped the failed project