OBAMA’S BORDER SECURITY CHIEF SAYS TRUMP IS RIGHT

FORMER OBAMA OFFICIAL: DEMS ARE LYING ABOUT BORDER WALL

Jon Miller published this interview on January 14, 2019. Before he actually brought on the guest, he points out how many of the Democratic lawmakers (who have been unwilling to negotiate with Donald Trump on the border wall) were caught on camera partying in Puerto Rico on day 22 of the ongoing government shutdown. Then he adds that many of the Democratic talking heads have simply been spewing a bunch of lies and myths on this border issue.

The guest he interviewed is Obama’s U.S. Border Patrol chief, Mark Morgan, who was actually fired by the Trump administration a couple of years ago. And he says he is speaking up now because he is frustrated at the insane lies that the Democrats and mainly liberal mainstream media keep trying to sell to America. He says “Don’t listen to the pundits, listen to the experts!” “Anybody that tells the American people that the wall is not effective – they are LYING to the American people.”

He also encourages Americans to do their own research. Look at the Secure Fence Act of 2006, he says. What is especially crazy is that many of the same politicians arguing against it now, are the same ones that argued for the bi-partisan bill back in 2006.

Mark Morgan’s position is this: Not only will a border wall work – along with getting the personnel and technology factors right, getting the wall right is a critical component of any meaningful plan for border security. “LET’S DO IT ALL, INCLUDING THE WALL” he likes to say. That all-embrassive approach is the only way to effectively reduce continued trafficking of people and drugs across the borders, as well as overall crime rates in American communities.

QUICK US-MEXICO BORDER WALL HISTORY

Mark Morgan suggested people look beyond the politics of this border wall / government shutdown situation and do their own research into the border wall. He specifically mentioned the Secure Fence Act of 2006, so that’s where I continued my own research.

Wikipedia entries typically come up first in Google searches. And Wikipedia is known to be pro-establishment, and anti-alternative media. That is to say, Wikipedia entries often denounce as “fringe” or “conspiracy theory” information that is contrary to the establishment narrative.

At any rate, here’s what Wikipedia says about the Secure Fence Act of 2006:

First US-Mexico Border Walls Erected in 1990

The U.S. Border Patrol first began to erect physical barriers in the San Diego area in 1990, when it set up fourteen miles of fencing along the border of San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico.

The Secure Fence Act of 2006 Called for 700 Miles of Border Walls

The U.S southern border with Mexico is about 2,000 miles long, but the bipartisan Secure Fence Act of 2006 only called for 700 miles of the southwest border stretching from California to Texas to be secured by fencing. As Wikipedia states:

On October 26, 2006, U.S. President George W. Bush signed the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (Pub.L. 109–367) into law stating, “This bill will help protect the American people. This bill will make our borders more secure. It is an important step toward immigration reform.”

The bill was introduced on September 13, 2006, by Congressman Peter T. King, Republican of New York. In the House of Representatives, the Fence Act passed 283–138 on September 14, 2006. On September 29, 2006, the Fence Act passed in the Senate 80–19.

The Walls That Were Actually Erected Seem Less Effective Than What Was Originally Called For in the 2006 Secure Fence Act

While the original 2006 Act provided for “at least two layers of reinforced fencing” to be built, an amendment to the Act in 2007 allowed the DHS “shift its focus to erecting a ‘virtual fence’ along the 2,000-mile border, using sensors, cameras and other high-tech equipment to prevent illegal crossings”. By April 2009, the DHS “had erected about 613 miles (985 km) of new pedestrian fencing and vehicle barriers along the southwest border from California to Texas.” By May 2011, the 649-mile fencing that was completed “was made up of 299 miles of vehicle barriers and 350 miles of pedestrian fence” with only “37 miles of secondary fencing and 14 miles of tertiary fencing”, according to Wikipedia. It would be an understatement to say that those secondary fencing figures are a little shy of the “700-mile-long, double-layered fence” for which the 2006 Secure Fence Act called.

Calls For Expansion of the US-Mexico Border Wall

The Republican Party’s 2012 platform called for the “double-layered fencing” to be built as originally called for in 2006 law (prior to the 2007 amendment that watered down the provision).

In 2016, one of the main pledges of presidential candidate Donald Trump was a border wall “as high as 55 feet” stretching along the entire 2,000 miles of the U.S.–Mexican border. The proposed wall wound not be a mere fence, but made “of hardened concrete, and … rebar, and steel”.

Fast forward to January 2019, the American political class has been so divided over the issue, that on account of this issue, the country has experienced the longest federal government shutdown in history. At the end of the day, do the Democrats really care about securing the southern border or are many of them just more concerned with resisting President Trump? And does Trump really need permission from the Dems to build the wall, or does he have other agendas up his political sleeves?