OF THE many unrealistic promises Donald Trump made during his campaign—restoring lost manufacturing jobs, immediately deportating 2m to 3m undocumented immigrants—building a wall that entirely divides America from Mexico was always among the least plausible. First there is the question of cost, which the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a university, estimates could be anywhere between $27bn and $40bn depending on the structure’s height, length and depth under the ground. There is the issue of geography. The ever-shifting sands of the Algodones Dunes in south-eastern California, for example, make a fixed wall nearly impossible. And there are legal questions, which Xavier Becerra (pictured), the attorney-general of California, evidently has a lot of.
On September 20th Mr Becerra, who has sued the Trump administration eight times in recent months, announced that his state would again challenge the administration in court, this time to halt construction of Mr Trump’s proposed border wall and prototypes of...Continue reading
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