$6.5 million
He says that Texas has put up more than 100 miles of barriers (buoys, containers and razor wire). If you have a spot where illegals are crossing and you put up 100 miles of barriers so that they have to walk fifty miles in the desert to cross and then 50 miles back to the original road, that is no joke. To walk an extra 100 miles like that will greatly thin the herd and reduce the crossings. It costs between $1 and $3 per linear foot to install razor wire. So assume $16,000 per mile, or $1.6 million dollars for 100 miles. Now suppose the Federal government paid to install 100 miles of razor wire for each of the four border states with Mexico. That would be $6.5 million dollars. We could take satellite pictures to figure our the four most used border crossings and set up these barriers. Homeland Security has a budget of $122 billion, this is a tiny fraction of a percent of that budget. We have been told that homeland security has spent $450 billion on the illegal immigrants, it seems this very tiny fraction of that cost would give us a tremendous ROI. NYC estimates they will wind up paying $12 billion for illegal immigrants. Again, the $6.5 million would go a very long way to saving money for the whole country.