{"id":55011,"date":"2018-03-13T16:50:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=55011"},"modified":"2018-03-13T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:50:29","slug":"president-trump-after-review-of-border-wall-prototypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=55011","title":{"rendered":"President Trump After Review of Border Wall Prototypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA&#8230;Well, thank you very much, Secretary Nielsen; Acting Commissioner McAleenan; and the incredible Border Patrol agents, CBP officers who are doing an amazing job; ICE agents and officers, who I know so many of you.  Every day, criminals and tariffs try to infiltrate our country.  You got a good glimpse of it before.  We did it together, with the media, frankly.  I didn\u2019t know we were going to be doing that, but you got, really, maybe a far better glimpse than you\u2019re going to get right now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dLCNnPm0It8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But the border wall is truly our first line of defense, and it\u2019s probably, if you think about it, our first and last, other than the great ICE agents and other people \u2014 moving people out.  It will save thousands and thousands of lives, save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars by reducing crime, drug flow, welfare fraud, and burdens on schools and hospitals.  The wall will save hundreds of billions of dollars \u2014 many, many times what it\u2019s going to cost.<\/p>\n<p>We must also close the deadly loopholes exploited by smugglers and traffickers.  And we\u2019re in that area.  We\u2019re in one of the many areas along the border where we have that problem.  And we have to confront the dangerous sanctuary cities, which you\u2019ve been all hearing so much about.<\/p>\n<p>California sanctuary policies put the entire nation at risk.  They\u2019re the best friend of the criminal.  That\u2019s what exactly is happening.  The criminals take refuge in these sanctuary cities, and it\u2019s very dangerous for our police and enforcement folks.<\/p>\n<p>The smugglers, the traffickers, the gang members, they\u2019re all taking refuge, and I think a lot of people in California understand that.  A lot of people from a lot of other places understand it, and they don\u2019t want sanctuary cities.<\/p>\n<p>These policies release dangerous criminal offenders to prey on innocent people and nullify the federal law.  They\u2019re threatening the security and the safety of the people of our country.  In the upcoming omnibus budget bill, Congress must fund the border wall and prohibit grants to sanctuary jurisdictions that threaten the security of our country and the people of our country.  We must enforce our laws and protect our people.<\/p>\n<p>And I have to say, law enforcement \u2014 ICE, Border Patrol \u2014 all of the people that have been so good to me for so long, they\u2019re really doing a job.  But our job \u2014 and I think we all understand the job would be a lot easier if we weren\u2019t protecting criminals in the sanctuary cities.  We had a great talk about it inside.<\/p>\n<p>Cooperation with Mexico is another crucial element of border security.  DHS coordinates closely with the Mexican law enforcement, and we must absolutely build on that cooperation.  Both countries recognize the need to stem the cross-border flow of illegal weapons, drugs, people, and cash.<\/p>\n<p>I have a great relationship with the President of Mexico, a wonderful guy \u2014 Enrique.  Terrific guy.  We\u2019re working \u2014 we\u2019re trying to work things out.  We\u2019ll see whether or not it happens.  I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s going to happen.  He\u2019s a very good negotiator.  He loves the people of Mexico, and he\u2019s working very hard.  We\u2019ll see what happens.<\/p>\n<p>But we have to, obviously, have a couple of disagreements before we get there.  You\u2019ll see over the next month whether or not it takes place in this administration, meaning his administration.  They have an election coming up.  I hear they have some very good people running, and they have some that maybe aren\u2019t so good.  In any event, we\u2019ll handle it.<\/p>\n<p>I want to again thank everyone for being here today, and I want to again call on Congress to deliver a budget that protects our homeland and properly funds all of our law enforcement needs.  I want to thank the Secretary.  I want to thank ICE and the Border Patrol agents for their incredible work and their incredible bravery.  I want to thank all of law enforcement on the border.  It\u2019s a dangerous job.  It\u2019s a tough job.  And if you didn\u2019t have even these remnant walls \u2014 we call them remnant; they\u2019ve been here for a long time \u2014 people don\u2019t say that.  But they\u2019ve been here for a long time.  If you didn\u2019t have them, you would have crime in numbers that far surpass the numbers that you see today.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve cut down, and way down, on crossings \u2014 border crossings \u2014 because of the job that the Border Patrol does.  And the ones that get through, we\u2019ve gotten out.  MS-13, we\u2019re taking them out by the thousands.  But we don\u2019t want them here in the first place.  We don\u2019t want them to come in.<\/p>\n<p>So this was really a day where we look at the different prototypes of the wall.  You\u2019ve seen them.  The media has seen them.  And some work very well; some don\u2019t work so well.  When we build, we want to build the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the ones that work the best aren\u2019t necessarily the most expensive \u2014 something I like about that ring.<\/p>\n<p>So I want to thank everybody for being here.  I want to thank, frankly, the media for being here.  And we\u2019ll let the people of our country know that we need safety, we need security at the border, and we\u2019re getting it like we\u2019ve never had it before.  But we want to make it perfecto.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all very much.  And thank you.  Thank you, folks, very much.  Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary, you want to say something?<\/p>\n<p>SECRETARY NIELSEN:  Just quickly, just to thank the President so much for his continued leadership.  As he says, CBP and ICE both put their lives on the line every day to protect our country.  For that, I\u2019m forever grateful, both as \u2014 to serve as Secretary, but also as an American.  And we will build this wall.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you for coming out today.  We\u2019re building up a toolkit based on what we\u2019ve learned from the research and development on the prototypes.  And we look forward to breaking ground very soon, and securing our country.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you again to the President for his continued leadership.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much, everybody.  Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Q    Will you veto a bill with no punishment for sanctuary cities?<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT:  We\u2019re going to see.  We\u2019re going to look at it.  We\u2019re looking at it very, very strongly.  Sanctuary cities are protecting a horrible group of people, in many cases \u2014 criminals.  And what happened, as an example, in Oakland was a disgrace to our nation.  And we just can\u2019t let that happen.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA&#8230;Well, thank you very much, Secretary Nielsen; Acting Commissioner McAleenan; and the incredible Border Patrol agents, CBP officers who are doing an amazing job; ICE agents and officers, who I know so many of you. Every day, criminals and tariffs try to infiltrate our country. You got a good glimpse of it before. 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