FACT CHECK: 4 years later, only 3 new miles of 'wall' and not a single peso from Mexico
WASHINGTON ― Four years after promising a 2,000-mile “Great Wall” made of reinforced concrete and paid for by Mexico, President Donald Trump took a victory lap for securing three new miles of steel fence that was paid for by raiding the military budget.
And that fencing, between 18 and 30 feet tall, has proven vulnerable to smugglers and human traffickers using portable, battery-powered saws. “I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively,” Trump said in his Trump Tower announcement. “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”
But upon taking office, Trump has not tried even once to get Mexico to pay for the wall ― although he has frequently lied that the revised North American Free Trade Agreement or remittances sent back to Mexico from workers here are somehow funding it. Trump on Tuesday blamed Democrats for doing “everything they could to block us” and claimed they supported “open borders.”
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