Evolving justifications for a border wall
By REBECCA MORIN 01/08/2019 02:56 PM EST
June 2015 ... “When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best,” he said. Because of that, he promised voters that he will “build a great wall” and “will have Mexico pay for that wall” ...
September 2016 ... "Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who these people are, where they come from," Trump said at the time. "I always say Trojan Horse. Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty" ...
January 2017 ... He claimed that a wall would “restore integrity and the rule of law to our borders” ...
October-December 2018 ... Prior to the midterm elections, Trump began denouncing another caravan of thousands of migrant .. from Honduras, as a deadly threat ... Trump also deployed troops to the southern border .. and threatened to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border. But soon after the midterms, Trump dramatically scaled back his talk ...
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/08/trumps-evolving-reasons-border-wall-1088046
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