The Federal Government Remains Closed Because of the Trump Administration’s Call for Some Kind of “Wall”

January 1, 2019

Happy New Year! It is an unprecedented immigration news cycle. The federal government is shut down over a budget impasse over congressional funding of “the wall” along the U.S./Mexico border. Now, there is a debate over what precise kind of “wall” is wanted by the Trump administration.

As CNN reports, President Donald Trump on Monday pushed back against claims that his administration has abandoned a concrete wall on the border, despite his own outgoing chief of staff’s statements that the idea was ruled out “early on in the administration.”

An all concrete Wall was NEVER ABANDONED, as has been reported by the media. Some areas will be all concrete but the experts at Border Patrol prefer a Wall that is see through (thereby making it possible to see what is happening on both sides). Makes sense to me!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2018

On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times published a two-hour interview with Kelly in which he told the paper “to be honest, it’s not a wall.” Kelly continued, “The president still says ‘wall’ — oftentimes frankly he’ll say ‘barrier’ or ‘fencing,’ now he’s tended toward steel slats. But we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration, when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it.”

President Trump also blamed the deaths of two migrant children on the Democrats.

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