Page 12 - Border Barriers News Today

Heather: a community says goodbye to a fallen officer. visitation will be held for arkansas officer stephen carr who was shot and killed execution style, the gunman was shot dead. officer cars funeral is tomorrow at the university of arkansas which turned. to honor the fallen officer. 42 officers have been shot and killed in the line of duty this year. a federal judge blocks the trump administration from using pentagon funds to build a border wall, releasing a statement saying the administration...

Of new walls. some kind of game they played in the politics of it. but there are some features that can prevent the ropes and ladders that people are using now. >> why couldnt you do that? what do you mean its not allowed if thats whats going to be more effective? >> yeah, you would think if we get something more effective that agent as and testing says it should be used and it isnt. the way the politics wrote out. >> is it a money thing? >> no, its politics. they said the president couldnt have...

Answer? >> no, the wall definitely helps. it helps illegal activity from happening. prevents some from coming into the country and anchors the technology and response that agents will need to effectively control the border. >> given what weve learned from this report, can one argue that the current barrier is any more ektive than previous border barriers? >> no, the one out there now has been tested. now there were features we lerped about in the anticlimb and antibreaching testing that were not...

Some of these skills he had as a real estate developer and promoter. he wanted more than anything i think for the journalists with him to be impressed because when he got back on air force one for the flight home he came back to us. we were all in the middle of eating our dinner, and he just wanted to know what we thought of the wall and kept asking did you like it, did you like it? whatd you think? was it serious? so hes very proud of this achievement obviously. >> but is it true, i think i saw...

Something, anything he can, to point to as a campaign promise fulfilled with 2020 on the horizon. so he doubles, triples, quadruples down on his main campaign promise, the border wall. tweeting that, it is his words, going up obstruction by democrats in congress andcisely, zero -- zero -- zero miles of border barriers have been built where none existed before. theyve only replaced about 60 miles of dilapidated barrier, which is not at all what the president is claiming. and there is more. two of...

November 2020 is the hope. and i think that thats going to happen. >> lets talk more about this wall and about facts, right, because the president, he tweeted that the wall is going up very fast. but the facts are, according to the customs and border protection agency, zero new miles of border barriers have been built. about 60 miles of dilapidated barrier, which has already been there, theyre just repairing it, they have been replaced. the president is rattled over the economic downturn. is thi...

>> lets talk about this wall. and about facts. the president tweeted that the wall is going up very fast. the facts are, zero new miles of border barriers have been built. 60 miles of dilapidated barrier. which has been there and repaired. has been replaced. trump is rattled over the potential of an economy downturn is the wall the go to? >> it has been. this is his standard go to. this is what he knows is absolute red meat to his base. its what gets them riled up and keeps them distracted from ...

Democrats in congress and elsewhere. that is not true. the fact is again, facts first, customs and border patrol told cnn precisely zero, zero. zero miles of border barriers have been built where none existed before. they have only replaced about 60 miles of barrier. which is not at all what the president is claiming. and theres more. two officials say the president recently said he would pardon them if they had to break laws to get his wall built by 2020. "washington post" broke the story. the ...

>> the presidents attorney looked at this closely and decided to do it. its unfortunately that the president has to go to the supreme court and do something. congress should have stepped up and done. there is no downside in securing our southern border. no downside in protecting america. congress should come forward willingly like they have in the past year, theyve always funded border barriers and fencing but they refuse to do it under this president. im glad its a victory. this president has w...

Today as intelligence officials are expected to meet with the gang of eight, top members of congress to talk this thing through. nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, has warned any war will have to go through the congress. back to you. >> joe, thank you very much. in just hours president trump is set to unveil a new immigration plan from the rose garden. the plan is spear-headed by his son jared kushner and is designed to get republican support and move america toward a merit-based system f...