Watch: Border Agent Drops Jaws as He Tells Trump What Border Wall’s Made of
By Joe Saunders
March 14, 2018 at 7:01am
These are the kind of jaw-dropping numbers liberals don’t want Americans to know.
But they’re the only kind that matter when it comes to President Donald Trump’s plan to build a long-promised wall on the border of the United States and Mexico.
And they prove one thing: Trump critics who think a border wall won’t cut down on illegal immigration have never talked to a Border Patrol agent.
On a visit to San Diego on Tuesday to review eight huge prototypes of the wall he’s proposing, Trump got a welcome earful from one Border Patrol agent who described the merits of a border wall much less sophisticated than the one Trump envisions.
The agent, who was not identified, told Trump that border guards in the area had built the barrier from scrap metal.
“There was effectively no border in San Diego. It was a chaotic situation,” the agent told Trump in a video posted on YouTube.
“We set it in place really just to delineate where the border was. And it changed our environment.”
How much did it change?
Illegal border crossings dropped by as much as 95 percent, the agent said. If a crudely constructed wall made of scrap metal can cut illegal immigration by 95 percent, just by being a physical barrier, imagine what could happen with a modern wall, equipped with advanced surveillance features. Trump was obviously impressed.
“That’s 95 percent with a scrap metal wall that they just put together with excess materials,” he said. “And it worked 95 percent.”