President Trump signed Executive Order to construct a U.S.-Mexico border wall

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017

United States President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 calling for the construction of a controversial border wall along the United States-Mexico border on the same date that Mexican government representatives are visiting Trump Administration officials to discuss the upcoming meeting between Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and President Trump in Washington, D. C. on January 31st.

President Trump has had a political fixation with building the controversial U.S.-Mexico border wall and blaming Mexicans for all of the social problems affecting the United States since the first day of his Presidential Campaign.

The newly signed Executive Order allows President Trump to fulfill his campaign promise to his supporters to build the controversial U.S.-Mexico wall at the expense of American taxpayers instead of Mexico as he had campaigned.

Approximately 700 miles of the almost 1.300 miles on the U.S.-Mexico border already has a border wall in the most critical points necessary along the border.  However, President Trump wants to build a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border which would be very expensive to American Taxpayers at a projected cost of up to $20 Billion.

Mexico’s President Pena Nieto has insisted that Mexico is not going to pay for any construction of the controversial U.S.-Mexico border wall proposed by President Trump. 

Former Executive Director of the U.S. Customs Border Protection’s Policy and Planning Office stated that “this whole idea of building this big wall is preposterous. We already have fencing where we need it most.  It would be an incredible waste of taxpayer money.”