I referenced 20 miles of new border wall in NM from that article. Here is a link to that project. A quick search shows many others happening along the border. Trump lies about a lot of shit but apparently not this one. Sorry
Contractor makes progress on new border fence in New Mexico
You really should read your own links.
Officials have touted the new wall as harder to get over, under and through.
When finished, it will cover 20 miles, replacing old post and rail barriers that were meant to stop vehicles but have been useless against people trying to cross on foot.
Yeah, I saw that. Iām not seeing your point. Op was saying Trump was lying about wall construction. Links show wall construction. The OP was wrong. It happens.
Replacement and repair of existing barrier is a non-issue. Billions have already been appropriated for that, but only a small percentage of that money has been spent. Trump pitched his tantrum and shut down the government over funding for NEW non-existing wall. Those are two totally separate things.
No they arenāt two separate things. They are word games and semantics, just like the āwallā āfenceā thing. Trump wants to build a barrier on the southern border. He pitched a big wall from sea to sea when he was campaigning. This was overblown rhetoric like everything else he says and he has now backed away from it. He is now trying to get as much built as he can down there. The Left doesnāt want to give him anything to boast about so they are trying to block funding and redefine what the āwallā is. None of that stuff matters. If DHS identifies an area that needs a better barrier, whether it be new or replacements then that is serving the purpose of trump and those that support border security via the āwallā.You saying that it isnāt on new open ground really makes zero difference.
What you just posted is NOT what is happening.
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats will give Trump money for his wall. Republicans held Congress and the Senate for two years and no Bill authorizing or funding the Wall was ever approved or even requested by Trump. Or passed by either House.
Republicans have repeatedly refused to get on board with Trumpās wall, and no one in the security agencies has asked for it or thinks itās a good idea.
So no. There will be no wall. No now,not ever,and all of Trumpās phoney machinations to manufacture a crisis on the Southern Border have backfired BIGLY.
Whatever made these assholes think that kidnapping babies and small children from their parents and shipping the parents back to where they came from was a winning strategy? This, more than another single act of his Presidency, is what cost Trump the midterms.
Iām all for Trump continuing this idiocy. His stupidity, his cruelty, and his racism are driving people away from the Republican Party by the thousands. About time!