Yet in his roundtable just now he talked about how we couldn’t and don’t want to be as tough as other countries are with their walls, then asked border patrol how they could defend the border without being so tough.
He also said it would be about another two years to get 400 miles of wall built, which would “about do it”. (And of course only be completed at that rate if he is reelected.
“He also said it would be about another two years to get 400 miles of wall built, which would “about do it””
That is basically the situation. If we can button up the Rio Grande Valley and the border cities with effective new wall system, it will make a dramatic improvement in controlling our border. He has been targeting the most important miles first.
Being able to deter and delay with barrier, and detect and intercept with technology and people, is the physical problem. The separate policy and legal issues about what to do with them once caught, is a whole different problem. That is probably why the President is looking for a real hard ICE Director.
He also said it would be about another two years to get 400 miles of wall built, which would “about do it”.
None of this is what he campaigned on. :(
I don’t know what’s happened to him, but this is not the Trump that campaigned to be tough on illegal immigration.
If I had been those board patrol members sitting there, I would’ve thrown his campaign promises right back into his face.