Mr. Trump has scaled back his initial promise to build a wall along the entire length of the frontier, saying that 1,000 miles of new barriers should suffice. ADADThose fights may intensify as the wall’s overall cost, which Mr. Trump once put at $8 billion, turns out to be several times that amount. In the meantime, it’s worth bearing in mind what the wall might and might not achieve. However, the border wall will not be an impregnable barrier. Most of those substances enter the country through legal ports of entry along the southwest border, hidden in cars and trucks.

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2019 23:26 UTC