US Agencies suggest a fence rather a wall

A part of the Legacy Fence (Photo: Omar Bárcena/Flickr.com)

US Authorities confirmed that it is not feasible to build a border wall. Rather, they are pushing for a construction of an 18ft fence made of steel with a cement base.

However, the President had previously insisted that he wants a wall and nothing else.

According to Border Security experts, building a wall isn’t feasible for technical reasons.

According to the Government Accountability Office, the government will spend $2.3 billion to extend fences to 654 miles out of the 2,000-mile border. Currently, it consists of 354 miles of pedestrian borders and 300 miles of vehicle barriers. For the past five years, the original Legacy fence had been breached more than 9,000 times.

Experts also mentioned that a fence would be more secure than a wall as security personnel would be able to monitor possible activities on the other side of the border.

If authorities would be able to convince Trump to go with a border fence rather than a wall, it would only cost $5 billion, instead of $12 billion which Trump agreed to. The border fence would also not be from coast to coast as experts believe that it is just illogical to fence inhabitable areas and tough terrain.

Given these circumstances, Trump’s “wall” would have a legacy fence where agencies will be tasked to replace 272 miles of fencing and add another 177 miles, with a total length of 831 miles. This will be executed on a three phase plan.

The plan will be presented to the President this week.