“Over 2,000 miles of border, around 500 miles of new and replaced border barrier, and he now only proposes to add a couple hundred miles, leaving around 1,200 miles unsecured?”
Have you ever been to the border?
I have.
Most of those 1,200 miles don’t need a fence because they’re impassable. Period.
President Trump put the barrier where the Border Patrol said they needed it. Like a good commander he listened to the boots on the ground and let THEM prioritize the sections to receive new barriers. Even then he had to fight everyone, including the stupid party, to get done what he did.
I have been to the border many times, I have traveled along it, have lived next to it. It needs to be entirely secured. Otherwise it’s whack-a-mole.