[Edward G Hamm]

Anyone who thinks that a wall can be built along the Mexican Border is as deluded as Trump.  Its costs will be stratospheric.  If it is real a wall, and not a fence, the drainage implications are enormous and expensive.  We are talking pumps to move water over the wall here at the base of a major drainage basin.   A wall like this will require a parallel road system on both sides just for US security.  Drugs are coming through the existing vehicular pass-through so that problem will not be addressed. Most of the land is privately owned by US landowners who do not want to sell.  Eminent domain will be required and will be challenged in court for decades driving up all road and wall construction costs and compel eventual non-completion.  This 2000 mile construction will defiantly cost upwards of 1 trillion if all goes smoothly.  This cruel and ineffective idea was tossed out to the Trump Base to appeal to their racist and uniformed anger.  It worked. Shame on America.

[Edward G Hamm]

I do think that evaluating the Trump administrations impact on our profession is shortsighted and trivial.  This man will do his best to damage lives and the environment for his own personal gain.

 When I worked in New York no respectable professional would work with this man.  He has incredibly bad taste and a record of not paying his consultants.  If you just spend a few moments watching him you will see that he is a true narcissist.  Most likely his lack of leadership will result in 4 years of no infrastructure or transportation funding.  This will negatively impact landscape architecture and more importantly our nation and the world environment.

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