President Trump’s campaign promise called for a concrete border wall to stop illegal immigration from Mexico. The Mexicans must finance and build the concrete structure. We the People must create a mutual agreement with Mexico for financing and construction to fulfill the President’s promise. Usable silica sand is the key.

First, think of a skyscraper like a Trump Tower. Skyscrapers all over the world are made of concrete. The main ingredient in concrete is silica sand with a cement binder. The beautiful glass facade of buildings like Trump Tower is made of sand processed at 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit. Single family home foundations, driveways and sidewalks, basements and garages are made of usable sand and cement. The ribbon of roads, bridges and tunnels that connect the world have silica sand as their main ingredient.

Usable silica sand is the long-tail keyword here. There is a worldwide shortage of the product. The desperate shortage does not end with the construction of buildings in the US.

From Jim Hightower’s Lowdown Newsletter we learn that in four years, from 2012 to 2016, China consumed more building sand than the US between 1900 and 2000. And the city of Shanghai has built more skyscrapers in the last ten years than there They are in New York City.

Wait a minute, you say. While the EPA was still in business, we were told that deserts are growing around the world at a disturbing rate. How can there be a shortage of sand? Unfortunately, the desert sand is not suitable for construction. The pellets are too small and round with a compression ratio below the minimum for construction or fracking.

That’s right, fracking. Companies like ExxonMobil and Halliburton use sand to fracture underground shale deposits to find fuel trapped in those rock formations in states like Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota.

Wisconsin’s big oil companies, known as the mother of all frackers, are drilling wells nearly two miles deep. Mother-frackers throw ten million pounds of precious sand onto the rock, trying to suck the last measly drops from the earth’s peak oil. There are already a hundred frac wells in the United States. The United States will use one hundred and twenty million tons of fracking sand this year, increasing by thirty percent each year.

Fortunately, for the construction of the Mexico Border Wall, the president has been successful in reversing Obama’s land policies in places like the picturesque Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. Thanks to President Trump’s reversal of mining regulations in these remote and environmentally sensitive areas of alluvial deposits along streams and riverbeds, the availability of silica sand will increase. Don’t worry, habitat protections for endangered species will also be scaled back despite opposition from the tourism and conservation lobby and some Democratic lawmakers.

Governments around the world, including China and Indonesia, have made efforts to reduce sand mining. The government of Mexico stopped legitimate sand mining companies from operating when they discovered that they were not only destroying their environment, but that the sand was being used in the United States.

Cemex, a small Mexican sand mining corporation with fourteen billion in annual sales, extracts three hundred thousand cubic yards of beautiful sand from Monterey Bay, CA each year. They are exempt from federal regulations that protect our beaches. His stock rose significantly when Trump was elected on the promise of a border wall.

Alright, let’s get to it. Here are the nuts and bolts of the plan to build Mexico’s border wall.

It will take two years to acquire the property and complete the design. It is not part of the construction plan, American taxpayers will pay for that part. With the Dodd-Frank easing, US banks will help recover the full amount under this plan, as will be explained here.

Thanks to automation in the construction industry, it will take two years with just two hundred unskilled workers to build the wall. The workers could be chosen from a pool of jailed illegals. The Department of Justice will offer repatriation to Mexico and early release for his participation in the construction workforce.

The government then obtains a $25 billion, thirty-year construction bond or capital improvement bond from a Mexican bank as a financing mechanism. The president’s henchmen estimate the cost of the wall at twenty-five billion dollars. Banamex, Mexico, a Citigroup subsidiary, or Mexico’s largest bank, Banco do Brasil, with $550 billion in assets, are likely options. With the backing of the United States Congress, the bank can rely on payment from the second year of construction.

Congress may establish a public-private company to license sixteen Mexican sand mining corporations to extract sand at locations in the U.S. Give guarantees to those Mexican corporations for ten years, with the expectation of a gross resale of twenty thousand million dollars per year, per corporation, of the precious product of controlled cost and price.

The taxing authority is the US Congress, which will impose a sand excise tax of three percent, equal to a minimum of ten billion per year in total, of gross resale of sand, as an instrument of refund.

Goldman Sachs may act as debt service manager for accounts receivable business volume and assignee of tax revenue deposits. By bond contract, they retain the deposits, without interest, for one year. GS legally uses that amount at one hundred billion times ten billion, for the construction of new buildings not related to the Wall. Remember, GS retains tax revenue for one year before reimbursement begins.

After the first year, Goldman Sachs begins to pay, with excise taxes on sand mining in Mexico, to repay the bond. GS earns a substantial taxable gain over the thirty-year maturity of the leveraged loan bond. The United States government benefits from tax revenue. The Mexicans have happily built and paid for the wall.