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One certainty of Trump's Mexico wall: big money

Earlier, ballooning costs and technical hitches prevented construction of the wall; in a twist now, the US may ultimately wind up paying Mexican people and firms to build it

Published Mon, Jan 30, 2017 · 09:50 PM

    New York

    IT was the border wall that didn't get built.

    In 2006, Boeing and a team of other companies won a federal contract to construct a wall to protect the US border with Mexico, which stretches roughly 3,200km, from California to Texas.

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