The National Security Subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee held a hearing Thursday on President Donald Trump’s signature election pledge of a wall on the southern border.
Five witnesses, four speaking in favor of the wall’s construction and one against, testified before the Subcommittee.
Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), framed the issue before the testimony of the witnesses. “A central issue of the President’s 2016 campaign was the promise to build ‘an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall,'” he said. DeSantis cited Israel’s successful border wall as a model for our own:
"President Trump has identified Israeli border security measures as a potential model for securing the U.S.-Mexico border. The construction of a security fence on the Israel-Sinai Border cut illegal entries from over 16,500 in 2011 to just 43 in 2013 and 12 in 2014 – a 99 percent decrease."
DeSantis also disputed Democrats’ claim that the wall might cost $70 billion, citing the Democrats’ own witness at the hearing, Seth Stodder, an Assistant Secretary in the Obama-DHS, as estimating a cost of only $14 billion in January.
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ReplyDeleteLet the Hispanics build it , they some hard workin SOBs. Beats cuttin grass!
ReplyDeleteI don't care if the wall cost $70 billion. Were spending over $100 billion letting then come in here
ReplyDeleteThe wall will reduce the number of pregnant Latinos who drop babies in our hospitals and stick taxpayers for the bill. It will reduce drugs and MS-13 thugs and other gangs illegally entering so the price is secondary as security if a primary concern.
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