DHS secretary: Border wall should be finished in two years

Fox News ^ | February 1, 2017 | Catherine Herridge, Matthew Dean

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MCALLEN, Texas – EXCLUSIVE: In his first television interview as Homeland Security secretary, retired four-star Marine Gen. John F. Kelly told Fox News he wants the U.S.-Mexico border wall finished in two years – setting an ambitious schedule for the project ordered last week by President Trump.

"The wall will be built where it's needed first, and then it will be filled in. That's the way I look at it," Kelly said. "I really hope to have it done within the next two years."

Fox News traveled with Kelly in McAllen, Texas, on Wednesday where he saw first-hand the challenges for Border Patrol agents. The Rio Grande Valley, known as the "RGV sector," is among the busiest. On any given day, Border Patrol agents pick up at least 600 people who have crossed the Mexican border, entering the U.S. illegally.

Those personnel, he explained, are all part of the broader plan for securing the border.

"Any discussion about the protection of our southwest border involves discussion of physical barriers but also of technological sensors, things like that,” he said. “But it's a layered approach, and it’s got to be backed up by great men and women who are going to make sure that the wall is intact."

But first, the department faces the tough task of funding – and then building – what would be the largest-ever construction project undertaken by the president who made his name in real estate.

[Windflier]

I hope this is a substantial wall we can be proud of, and will make it nearly impossible for people to climb over.

Well, it's gonna be stamped with the Trump name, so I'm expecting the very best. This is right in his wheel house.

[Windflier]

Donaldus Magnus!

[Beave Meister]

Here is how to get Mexico to help build the wall. Every illegal alien caught will be sentenced to 2 - 5 years hard labor building the wall, and immediately deported afterwards. When the word gets out, they won’t dare try to come here illegally.

[DoughtyOne]

I sure hope so.

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[Jeff Chandler]

Still no mention of land mines...

Or croc-filled moats.

[Jeff Chandler]

I’m trying to figure out how to get the spray paint concession on the Mexican side.

[onona]

Well, looks to be short term....

[Mr Radical]

Two years? Just an idea, why not bring back the troops recently deployed in Europe and post them to the border! And the rest!

[anton]

Or, high voltage.

[gleeaikin]

Two years is optimistic. Many legal hurdles—eminent domain, watering rights of land owners, etc. will slow things down. Like the Great Wall of China, there will need to be barracks built and strung along the way and good roads to rush where needed at a moment’s notice, also necessary vehicles to transport border agents.

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Amen

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Machete !

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I’m trying to figure out how to get the spray paint concession on the Mexican side.

The concrete on the Mexican side will be sealed with paraffin wax—nothing will stick to it for very long. ;)

[Does so]

Two years? Just an idea, why not bring back the troops recently deployed in Europe and post them to the border! And the rest!

Pay them with funds previously marked for the UN.

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[DoodleDawg]

In two years they aren’t even going to be done with the eminent domain cases.

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Two years is optimistic. Many legal hurdles—eminent domain, watering rights of land owners, etc. will slow things down.

Let's see how the landowners appreciate the gaps in the wall. ;)

[AdmSmith]

It will be a wall of legal documents.

[golas1964]

...or tunnel under.