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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched a new webpage Wednesday titled “Walls Work.”

The four-page document stresses that, under President Donald Trump, federal officials are committed to “building wall and building wall quickly.” 

It promises that DHS will be able to erect an additional 330 miles of barrier if Congress approves Trump’s $5 billion funding request. 

“Under this president, we are building a wall that is 30-feet high,” DHS asserts. “FACT: Prior to President Trump taking office, we have never built wall that high.”

But the structures now being erected do not meet the definition of a wall used by Trump during his campaign, or by DHS in seeking wall prototypes. 

And the new construction doesn’t add mileage to the border-security system. The projects completed so far — segments of 2.25 miles, 20 miles, 14 miles, 4 miles — build fences that replace older fences. 

In 2017, the USA TODAY NETWORK flew, observed and mapped every mile of the U.S.-Mexico border and its existing fencing, a project that took months. 

More than a year later, the total number of miles with fencing has not changed. Nearly all of the barriers built either replaced old structures or provided an additional layer of security. But DHS now usually refers to the fences as walls.

On Tuesday, the president put out a tweet declaring much of his “great wall” already has been built, and the border “is now secure and will remain that way.”

Fake news straight from the White House.

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Trump, the great ‘builder,’ is erecting a glorified picket fence instead of a wall

When President Trump last summer said to a stadium of supporters, “I’m a builder. That’s what I do. That’s probably what I do best,” I suspect they had in mind more impressive architecture than a wall, but that’s all they wanted anyway.

Two years into his presidency, the most Trump has managed to build are bits and pieces of what a mounts to a high picket fence.

The administration in late November proudly sent out an email featuring a before-and-after set of images purporting to show the swimming progress on the construction of the wall. They look like those infomercials for anti-wrinkle creams, wherein the model in one slide is shown frowning under ghastly florescent light and then in the second slide giving a radiant smile with a soft camera focus.

 
It’s a scam.

The administration’s “after” photo is nothing more than new fencing put up after border patrol as far back as 2009 identified specific areas where enhanced barriers were needed due to high crossing rates. It looks nothing like the massive prototypes Trump was photographed with in March.

Those walls underwent intensive testing for potential weaknesses by both the military and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, using power tools, torches, and ropes, according to the Associated Press. Only one agent was able to throw a hook atop one of the walls so that he might climb up. Everything else failed, though agents did recommend combining elements of each prototype if any actual structure were to be put up on the border.

Those are the walls his supporters fantasize about when Trump says “we need a wall.” Though they could be forgiven for being unsure whether a wall has already been built, whether it’s almost completed, or whether it’s even still needed.

When Trump has lost the Washington Examiner you know he’s toast.  Crumbly, cold, greasy toast.

". . . those who claim to know the Mind of God, who will tell you what God thinks and how He will judge and condemn others—those people are the greatest of all blasphemers." Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast

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Desert_Fox wrote:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/trump-the-great-builder-is-erecting-a-glorified-picket-fence-instead-of-a-wall?utm_source=msn&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=msn_feed

Trump, the great ‘builder,’ is erecting a glorified picket fence instead of a wall

When President Trump last summer said to a stadium of supporters, “I’m a builder. That’s what I do. That’s probably what I do best,” I suspect they had in mind more impressive architecture than a wall, but that’s all they wanted anyway.

Two years into his presidency, the most Trump has managed to build are bits and pieces of what a mounts to a high picket fence.

The administration in late November proudly sent out an email featuring a before-and-after set of images purporting to show the swimming progress on the construction of the wall. They look like those infomercials for anti-wrinkle creams, wherein the model in one slide is shown frowning under ghastly florescent light and then in the second slide giving a radiant smile with a soft camera focus.

It’s a scam.

The administration’s “after” photo is nothing more than new fencing put up after border patrol as far back as 2009 identified specific areas where enhanced barriers were needed due to high crossing rates. It looks nothing like the massive prototypes Trump was photographed with in March.

Those walls underwent intensive testing for potential weaknesses by both the military and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, using power tools, torches, and ropes, according to the Associated Press. Only one agent was able to throw a hook atop one of the walls so that he might climb up. Everything else failed, though agents did recommend combining elements of each prototype if any actual structure were to be put up on the border.

Those are the walls his supporters fantasize about when Trump says “we need a wall.” Though they could be forgiven for being unsure whether a wall has already been built, whether it’s almost completed, or whether it’s even still needed.

When Trump has lost the Washington Examiner you know he’s toast. Crumbly, cold, greasy toast.

I like picket fences, they are cute a few table and chairs here and there , could attract even more visitors to the USA

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