Republican mayor will tell him he's wrong
BY JASON LEMON ON 2/10/19 AT 9:17 AM
... Dee Margo, who has served as El Paso’s mayor since 2017, spoke with conservative CNN host S.E. Cupp on Saturday evening to discuss Trump’s false claims about El Paso and border security ...
During his State of the Union address last Tuesday evening, Trump insisted that El Paso was safer due to “a powerful barrier” it had constructed ...
“I’ve been stating it publicly since last Tuesday night,” the mayor pointed out. “The geography of Texas won’t allow a fence from El Paso to Brownsville even if you wanted to do it,” he added ...
Despite Trump’s statement, El Paso has not been considered one of the nation’s most dangerous cities, with a violent crime rate significantly below the national average for city’s of a similar size. And, according to Politifact, the violent crime rate actually went up after the border barrier was built ...
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-el-paso-mayor-absolutely-tell-trump-wrong-crime-1325508