This plan does not provide estimates of the full cost, time, and resources that will be required to take land from private landowners to build this border wall.
Filemon Vela: “This plan does not provide estimates of the full cost, time, and resources that will be required to take land from…”
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Vela points out the lack of comprehensive cost analysis in the border wall plan.
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