The cost estimates for the U.S.-Mexico border wall vary significantly due to unclear specifications about the wall's structure.

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The cost estimates for the U.S.-Mexico border wall vary significantly due to unclear specifications about the wall's structure.

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The estimates vary so widely because of the lack of clarity about what the wall will actually consist of beyond the first meager Homeland Security specifications
Although during the election campaign candidate Trump claimed that the wall would cost only $12 billion, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) internal report in February put the cost at $21.6 billion, but that may be a major underestimate

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