Shortly after his top communications staffer said Nancy Pelosi was just obsessed with a wall as opposed to a “physical barrier”, President Trump released a letter insisting on a wall.
Absolutely critical to border security and national security is a wall or a physical barrier that prevents entry in the first place. Members of both parties—including then Senators Obama and Clinton, current Senator Schumer, and many other members of the House and Senate—all voted for a hard, physical barrier. Walls work. That’s why rich, powerful, and successful people build them around their homes. All Americans deserve the same protection. In Israel, it is 99 percent effective.
What is weird here is that most Democrats have voted for various fencing and barriers at certain parts of the border. But we already have those. The whole point of Trump’s promise was a wall along the whole border. The White House seems to have dropped that idea, except when they haven’t. So it’s an indeterminate amount of money, either for a wall or just the same general policy of some physical barriers, which is existing policy and for barriers which already exist.
