What Will The Border Wall Cost. The costs keep piling up for trump's border wall which has a current pricetag of $11 billion — nearly $20 million per mile. That sounds like a ton of money.
The border wall system construction includes new border and levee wall construction, replacement of existing legacy border fence, and the. The building spree that year more than doubled the number of walls, from 5 to 12. To compare the price tags, we broke down the costs for the border wall and healthcare.gov.
Acquisitions for the border wall system program—dhs's program to deploy barriers and other assets along the southwest border—are required to follow the department's acquisition process.
Even a concrete wall would. There's already a fence around the border that stretches hundreds of miles. Plus, an internal report by. The findings of this analysis show that if a border wall stopped a small fraction of the illegal immigrants who are expected to come in the next decade, the fiscal savings from having fewer illegal immigrants in the country would be sufficient to cover the costs of the wall.