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DHS unveils Trump's first completed border wall project: 'Walls work'

2018-10-29

[Wash Examiner] CALEXICO, Calif. ‐ Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Friday unveiled the first completed border wall project that was constructed as a result of President Trump’s push to further secure the U.S.-Mexico border.

"Walls work, it’s not my opinion," Nielsen said at the ceremony near downtown Calexico, a rural border town of approximately 38,000 residents. "It’s not a tag line. It’s a fact."

Construction of the 30-foot, 2.5-mile-long wall began in February and lasted eight months. Nielsen watched as welders affixed a sign to the wall to commemorate the event. It's now the tallest barrier on the entire 2,000-mile-long southwest border.

"Looking at this, I would not attempt to climb it," Nielsen said.

A plaque with President Trump's name was welded onto the wall after the ceremony as Nielsen and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan watched.

Posted by:Besoeker

#8 The fence is a complete joke. Way to easy to climb. Now if they covered the top with razor wire. I fairness my group were hardcore mountaineers.

A bit surprised no one else has noted this.

Posted by: Woodrow 2018-10-29 23:39

#7 Because they want to be here, in our country. They want the benefits of living here and attaching themselves to the taxpayers wallet like ticks and still retain their former national identity.

Posted by: Thusoter Crusonter6355 2018-10-29 20:16

#6 Someone brought up an interesting point:

And why do these people, supposedly fleeing intolerable conditions in their homeland, carry little flags from their homeland and break into its national anthem when the TV cameras show up?

Posted by: Besoeker 2018-10-29 19:01

#5 How much time will it take to complete the 2000 mile fence? What is it, something like 533 years? Indeed faster please.

Posted by: JohnQC 2018-10-29 17:13

#4 Faster please.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-10-29 10:32

#3 not as Latinos but as Americans

Boy howdy, snuck that one right by ya didn't they?

That's the whole point of immigration to be American sans hyphen. This is just part of the PC identity crap.

Posted by: AlanC 2018-10-29 09:54

#2 Good. As Ruben Navarette points out:

As a Never Trumper, I didn’t get it. So, I interviewed some Latinos for Trump and I got an earful. Many of them saw themselves not as Latinos but as Americans, and so they weren’t hung up on Trump’s anti-Latino screeds. They didn’t like or trust Clinton, appreciated Trump’s frankness, wanted a strong leader, and thought he was right about a lot of issues, including trade and immigration.

Yes, immigration. What most non-Latinos don’t grasp is that Latinos are ambivalent about illegal immigration. They have a front-row seat not just to the pain of deportations, but also to how many immigrants commit crimes or abuse social services.

In 2016, an astounding 29 percent of Latinos voted for Trump.

And now, two years into his presidency, polls show that his support among Latinos is somewhere between 33 and 41 percent.

Posted by: trailing wife 2018-10-29 09:45

#1 High walls make good neighbours.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-10-29 07:35

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